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Tag Archives: model systems
Research In Focus for Burn Awareness Week
This week is Burn Awareness Week, organized by the American Burn Association to bring attention to burn and fire prevention and to advocate for burn injury survivors and their families. Burns injuries are damage to the body caused by exposure … Continue reading
The Power of Rehabilitation: Research on Inpatient Rehabilitation
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week recognizes the importance of rehabilitation in all its forms to help people with disabilities and those recovering from injury and illness live lives of full participation in their communities. This year’s campaign focuses on the power … Continue reading
Burn Research in Focus for Burn Awareness Week
For National Burn Awareness Week, we look to the exceptional work of the Burn Model System Centers and more than 30 years of research in rehabilitation and community participation. Continue reading
Mental Health Impacts Us All
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mental health is “an important part of overall health and well-being” and “includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.” Mental health affects how people think, feel, and act, it helps … Continue reading
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Tagged burn injuries, community participation, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, inclusion, mental health, model systems, MSKTC, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, people with disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, research, Resources, SCI, spinal cord injury, TBI, traumatic brain injury, TU Collaborative
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The Model Systems Databases – A Wealth of Data at Your Fingertips
What are the leading causes of spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury? How can a person’s age when they were injured impact their recovery? How many people with these injuries return to work? These are the kinds … Continue reading
Concussion and Football
Coaches and players are more aware of the risks of brain injury, thanks in large part to the research of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). Dr. Nancy Chiaravalloti, director of the Northern New Jersey TBIMS was interviewed by … Continue reading
Model Systems in the News: Parkinson Drug May Help Brain Injury Recovery
The New York Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Health Day are all reporting the results of a NIDRR-funded study showing that a drug used to treat Parkinson disease can help in recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI). The results … Continue reading
Representative Gabrielle Giffords Begins Rehabilitation at TIRR/Memorial Hermann
Correction: Rep. Giffords was transferred on Jan 26th. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/27/AR2011012701251.html. On Friday morning, January 21, 2011 U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was transported to the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, Texas. Recognized as one of the top-rated rehabilitation hospitals … Continue reading
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Tagged brain injury, Gabrielle Giffords, model systems, TIRR
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Funding Opportunity: Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center
NIDRR invites proposals for the 2011 Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Overview Information; National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)–Disability and Rehabilitation Research Project and Centers Program–Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRPs)–Model … Continue reading
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Tagged Grants, knowledge translation, model systems
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