Overview
Overview
Learn about research now underway, new ideas in spinal cord rehabilitation and neural repair, and the people and research facilities behind these promising fields of discovery.
Neural engineering and therapy
Toronto Rehab’s Neural Engineering & Therapy Team conducts research to improve participation in daily life for older individuals and those who have experienced a stroke, spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury. Researchers are developing new therapies and clinical assessment tools, as well as assistive technologies. Team leader: Dr. Milos R. Popovic
2011 Source: Toronto Rehab
Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Located at Toronto Rehab’s Lyndhurst Centre, the Rehabilitation Engineering Lab provides a unique environment where scientists, clinicians and students are making advances to help people with spinal cord injuries live fuller, more independent and healthier lives. Research will lead to the development of more enhanced rehabilitation systems; neuroprostheses for grasping, standing, walking and sitting; sophisticated man-machine interfaces and a variety of monitoring and assessment devices.
2011 Source: Toronto Rehab
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research
This Toronto Rehab chair supports research that uses new knowledge in engineering and biology in innovative ways to enhance recovery from spinal cord injury. The inaugural chair holder is Dr. Milos R. Popovic.
2011 Source: Toronto Rehab
Retraining people with spinal cord injuries to stand and balance
Born in the Russian city of Salsk, not far from the Black Sea, Dr. Dimitry Sayenko could hardly have predicted where his research would take him—from working with Russian cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts to Toronto Rehab!
2011 Source: Toronto Rehab
Spinal cord injury: bringing new ideas to the table
It’s not every day that you get three leading authorities in spinal cord research face-to-face in a room to consider all the possibilities ahead for people living with these extreme and complex injuries.
2008 Source: Toronto Rehab +7 Report on Rehabilitation Research, pages 20-22
Dr. Milos Popovic: Energizing spinal cord injury research
In his early career, Dr. Milos Popovic immersed himself in the fields of power systems, robotics and aerospace engineering. But it was the opportunity to help people paralyzed by spinal cord injury and stroke to regain their ability to move that captured his imagination and set him on his ultimate career path.
Fall 2006 Source: Toronto Rehab magazine, Vol 6, No 3, pages 12-14