ARCHIVE of 2002-2007 grant cycle for RERC on Rehabilitation Robotics and Telemanipulation:
Machines Assisting Recovery from Stroke (MARS-RERC)
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MARS-RERC focuses its research and development on restoring function in hemispheric stroke survivors. Five projects assess different approaches that have the potential to improve performance of the upper extremity, and one project attempts to restore gait and fluid locomotion to the lower extremities. These projects include:
In addition to these projects, MARS-RERC is training undergraduate engineering students, medical students, physician residents, graduate students in engineering and neuroscience and allied health clinicians, including physical and occupational therapists in the area of rehabilitation robotics. The broad intent of MARS-RERC is to develop robotic devices or machines that assist the therapist in providing treatments that are rationally based, intensive and long in duration. This project is a collaboration of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the Catholic University of America (CUA) and National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the University of California at Irvine (UCI).
MARS-RERC YR4 Grant #: H133E020724-04