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, ...

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 the ...

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

Rachel Cowan, Ph.D., who is an ad hoc member of the Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Service Scientific Merit Review Board, has been selected to join the Boards’ ...

TechSAge recently received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research to support another five years of work — the project’s third ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biomedical engineering involves the application of engineering principles and methods to define and solve problems in medicine and biology. Students choose biomedical engineering to be of service to ...

My research focuses on the mechanics and control of human movement with the goal of restoring functional movement to people with disabilities. In this work, I study the properties of the intact body ...