The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $148,880 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Regents of the University of Michigan. The goal of this 2-year project is to discover explicit models for the relationship between lower-limb kinematics and desired prosthetic joint impedance parameters, and to use these models to develop a novel end-to-end impedance control paradigm. This will enable...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a $291,848 research study at the University of Illinois focused on the impact of cognitive-motor interference on balance control in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The study aims to investigate proactive and reactive balance control in single and dual-task conditions, as well...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $514,196 to the University of Illinois to conduct a cross-sectional, comparative study on walking inefficiency in multiple sclerosis (MS). The study aims to compare oxygen cost of walking and lower-limb muscle blood flow/oxygenation between individuals with MS and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $141,609 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Ohio State University. The grant titled "Leveraging Digital Technologies to Advance Rehabilitation for Children with Unilateral Cerebral Palsy" aims to: Determine the effectiveness of telehealth-delivered pediatric constraint-induced movement therapy (PCIMT) for school-aged children with...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is investigating the neural, motor, cognitive, and psychological factors underlying fear of falling in individuals with multiple sclerosis. The $145,782 award will fund a comprehensive study to identify the contributions of these various factors to fear of falling, as well as their...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $439,255.00 in funding to the University of Illinois to conduct a study titled "Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to Facilitate Perturbation-Based Reactive Balance Training for Fall-Risk Reduction Post-Stroke: The REACTplusNMES Trial." The study aims to improve fall prevention...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,997,297 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, doing business as Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The grant, awarded on Sep 2, 2024, aims to develop a sensitive and specific fall screening protocol for lower limb prosthetic users that utilizes gait and kinematic analysis from markerless motion capture. The project will...
This federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a $693,365 research project to evaluate the longer-term impacts of a medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention delivered through pediatric care. The MFP intervention provides financial coaching to low-income families, with the goal of improving child developmental...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $280,260 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to assess design tradeoffs in an orthosis with enhanced functionality and customizability. The project aims to improve upon a variable stiffness orthosis (VSO) design by incorporating a unique cam-based transmission that...
This $160,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to 1) identify distinct balance domains that comprise falls efficacy in individuals with chronic stroke, and 2) determine how these factor-specific balance domains relate to walking activity in this population. The project will utilize secondary analyses of existing data...