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Project Title:
University of Pittsburgh Brain Injury Model System
Funding Agency:
National Institute on Disability & Rehabilitation Research
Total Project Period:
Oct 01, 2002 - Sep 30, 2007
Principal Investigator:
Armando Rotondi, PhD
Co-Investigator(s):
Ross Zafonte, MD; Joseph H. Ricker MD
Project Summary:
The University of Pittsburgh Brain Injury System – Model Center (UPBI) represents the efforts of dedicated consumers, clinicians and researchers. The UPBI’s research focus is on innovations in rehabilitation technology for persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). A focus of the New Freedom Initiative and the NIDRR long-range plan is the utilization of technology to ameliorate disability. Our research projects will address this need by evaluating the impact of selected innovations in technology on service delivery, functional outcome, and as therapeutic intervention. We will address the shortcoming in wheelchair design for persons with brain injury by evaluating a unique personalized powered mobility system. Our collaboration with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University will allow us to perform a randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of virtual reality and robotics (rehabilitation by distortion) for persons with TBI. Finally we will utilize intelligent navigation technology to implement and evaluate a web-based virtual case manager support structure for persons with TBI and their families.
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