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Recent News

• September 24, 2008 Robotic Innovation Aids Stroke Patients' Recovery |RIC| Robotic advancements help stroke patients recover the ability to walk
• September 9, 2008 RIC Bionic Arm Featured on ABC as a "Medical Mystery" RIC Bionic Arm featured on ABC's "Medical Mysteries."
• September 3, 2008 RIC Sends Six to 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the #1 rehabilitation hospital in the country, today announced it has sent three athletes to Beijing to compete in the 2008 Paralympic Games demonstrating RIC’s vision of enhanced human ability through innovative rehabilitation care and scientific discovery.
• August 27, 2008 VA Secretary Peake Visits RIC The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), ranked the nation’s “#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America”[1], today announced that Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Lt. Gen. James Peake (Ret.), MD, toured RIC to learn about its leading rehabilitation medicine models and innovative research that can continue to benefit service members with severe injuries such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), estimated to affect more than 320,000 service members who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
• August 27, 2008 RIC Featured in Worldwide Media Story about Vietnamese Boy RIC’s innovative pediatric care was featured in the worldwide media coverage of a two-year-old male patient from Vietnam, Phung Thien Nhan, who was left in the jungle to die and, subsequently, was mauled by wild animals before monks saved him and nursed him back to health.
• August 19, 2008 RIC Brain Injury Program Receives Two Federal Grants for Innovative Research The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the #1 rehabilitation hospital in the country[1], today announced two significant research grants awarded to the Brain Injury Medicine and Rehabilitation Program to fuel cutting-edge research awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
• July 22, 2008 Dr. Steven Stanos and RIC’s Center for Pain Management Featured on ReachMD XM Radio Show
• July 14, 2008 RIC Ranked “#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the 18th Consecutive Year The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the leading physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital in the country, today announced it has been ranked the “#1 rehabilitation hospital in America” for the 18th consecutive year. The rankings are based on a survey of board-certified physiatrists (physicians who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation) as reported in the July 28th“Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News & World Report.
• June 30, 2008 U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Recommends Partnering of VA Hospitals With Private Rehab Facilities
• June 30, 2008 RIC Offers New Intensive Aphasia Therapy Program

Related Sites of Care

• Advocate Illinois Masonic Outpatient Services in affliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
• Advocate Illinois Masonic Outpatient Services in affliation with Rehabilition Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
• Alexian Medical Mall Outpatient Services - Schaumburg, IL
• Alexian Rehabilitation Hospital Day Rehabilitation Services in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Elk Grove Village, IL
• Alexian Rehabilitation Hospital Outpatient Services in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Elk Grove Village, IL
• Blessing Hospital Home Health Rehabilitation Services in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Quincy, IL
• Blessing Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Services in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Quincy, IL
• Blessing Hospital Outpatient Rehabilitation Services in affilitation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Quincy, IL
• Blessing Hospital Skilled Nursing Unit Rehabilitation Services in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Quincy, IL
• Donnelly Family Disability Ethics Program - Chicago, IL
• LIFE Center - Chicago, IL
• Rehab Unlimited - Anna in affliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Anna, IL
• Rehab Unlimited - Herrin in affiliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Herrin, IL
• Rehab Unlimited - Murphysboro in affliation with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago - Murphysboro, IL
• Rehabilitation Engineering - Chicago, IL

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Related Clinical Trials

• Physical Activity in Persons with Arthritis
• RIC Arthritis Center Research Registry
• A Manual Stand-Up Wheelchair
• Bilateral Training for Upper Extremity Hemiparesis
• Mechanisms Underlying Workspace Deficits in Chronic Stroke- A Pilot Study
• Computer Treatment for Aphasia: Evaluating Efficacy and Treatment Intensity
• Investigation of functional grasp following stroke
• Rehabilitation Reaching in Chronic Stroke using an Anti-Gravity Force Field
• Neurophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Spasms in Spinal Cord Injury
• Preventing Pressure Sores in Wheelchair Bound Patients

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Related Research

• Arthritis RIC offers comprehensive arthritis rehabilitation for people whose functional abilities have been affected by arthritis.
• New Arthritis Research
• What is Amputation? Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago's glossary of amputation definitions.
• Pain Studies RIC is a leader in research, and we conduct several studies in chronic pain. If you qualify as a subject for one of our studies and are interested in participating, you can apply or learn more by visiting the Center for Pain Studies online.
• Arthritis & Physical Activity The knowledge gained from this study has the potential to help persons with arthritis and care providers develop individualized treatment plans and interventions that enhance full participation in lifestyle physical activities.

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