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Nov
12
2018

Dr. Edelle Field-Fote: Measuring what matters in multimodal rehab research

When: Monday, November 12, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT

Where: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th floor Sky Lobby Auditorium A-B, 355 E. Erie, Chicago, IL 60611 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: None

Contact: Tommi Raij, MD, PhD   (312) 238-4401

Group: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Research Seminar Series

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Abstract

Rehabilitation research offers unique and rewarding opportunities to combine interventions in multimodal approaches with the potential to improve function and health. However, multimodal approaches can be fraught with complex interactions, and the influences of exercise and use-dependent plasticity bear particular consideration. Since exercise and training are essential components of rehabilitation, prior to undertaking a large trial, it is important to understand how they may interact with other interventions as mediators, moderators, confounders, and/or covariates. Beyond the selection of interventions, there are choices to be made in the selection of outcome measures, and today’s technology offers a myriad of approaches for capturing change associated with experimental interventions. Yet, despite the dazzle of tech-based measures, participants and the clinical populations they are intended to represent place greater value on more mundane function-based measures. Numerous study designs are available that can offer important insights into the interactions that are inherent in multimodal rehabilitation research, and capture meaningful change.

Speaker info

In her role the Director of SCI Research at Shepherd Center, Dr. Field-Fote leads a team dedicated to improving motor function in persons with SCI through the development of neuro modulation and neurorehabilitation approaches informed by the latest neuroscience research and guided by outcomes that have meaning for persons with SCI. Her contributions to the SCI literature include the largest study to date of locomotor training for persons with chronic, motor-incomplete SCI, and the first-ever study of a rehabilitation intervention to promote neuroplasticity for improved hand function in persons with tetraplegia. With a clinical background as a physical therapist and PhD training in a pre-clinical model of SCI, her 20+ years of SCI research has spanned the breadth of basic and clinical research related to SCI. Dr. Field-Fote currently serves on the NIH National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research, and her work has been funded by the NIH since 1997; other projects in her lab are funded by the Department of Defense, and the National Institute on Independent Living Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Dr. Field-Fote is the editor/author of the textbook Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation (FA Davis Publishers), she currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy, and as Project Director of the Southeastern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System.

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