The Rehabilitation Engineering and Behavioral/Health Promotion Technology (REBHPT) core was designed to offer behavior and rehabilitation technology development, intervention, and evaluation services.

Dudley Childress, one of the first graduates of the biomedical engineering PhD program at the McCormick School of Engineering who went on to conduct important work in rehabilitation engineering, ...

A new UAB grant is housed in the Department of Health Services Administration. The University of Alabama at Birmingham will soon have a a new Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center. Researchers at ...

Lumbar degenerative disc disease (DDD) remains a major contributor to chronic back pain and disability worldwide. In recent years, the evaluation of functional impairment in patients with this ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Nathan Copeland injured his spinal cord in a 2004 car accident and he has been instrumental to the research at the Pitt and UPMC Rehab Neural Engineering Lab. "If you can't move ...

When Jorge Letechipia turns on the video, what seemed theoretical suddenly becomes very real. On the TV screen, a young man with muscular dystrophy struggles to get out of a chair. He pushes back from ...

Each year, millions of people suffer from neurological impairments such as strokes. For these individuals, a crucial part of rehabilitation is to improve the use of their hands and arms. During spring ...

DARTMOUTH -- Dr. Howard E. Michel, assistant professor of electrical/computer engineering at UMass Dartmouth, has been appointed associate director for research at the university's Center for ...