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

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 spring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The device, palm sized and black with a curved finger of plastic protruding, looks more like a one-legged spider than a key to a better life. But the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new UAB grant is housed in the Department of Health Services Administration. The University of Alabama at Birmingham will soon have a a new Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center. Researchers at ...