Research at Craig

RESEARCH AT CRAIG IN 2020

Established in 1974, the Craig Hospital Research Department currently has a staff of 27 with an annual budget of $6.9 million in federal, state and foundation-sponsored grants and is devoted to conducting a wide variety of applied spinal cord injury and brain injury rehabilitation research. In addition, funds raised from the annual Craig Foundation PUSH dinner support research questions raised by Craig clinicians, providing the opportunity to support translational research within our continuum of care. This year, our research team participated in more than 35 research projects. Learn more at craighospital.org/research.

A SNAPSHOT OF OUR 2020 RESEARCH (not a complete list)

SPINAL CORD INJURY

- Utilization of Complementary and Integrative Healthcare to Treat Pain in Persons With SCI - Using a Health Technology Assessment Framework for Evaluating the Utilization and Efficiency of Wearable Exoskeletons for SCI Rehabilitation - Residential Instability in Chronic SCI: An Investigation of Patterns and Consequences - Impact of Pain at Follow-up in Individuals With SCI - Reinventing Yourself After SCI - Effects of Ekso-Assisted Gait Training on Bone Health and Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial - Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Cognitive Screening Battery for Individuals with SCI - Functional MRI in SCI Patients With Below-Level Neuropathic Pain - Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation in Combination With Massed Practice Training in SCI - Validating the Injustice Experience Questionnaire in an SCI Sample - Bidets for Independence and Quality of Life - MRI and Machine Learning to Improve Early Prognosis and Clinical Management After SCI - Predictive Modeling of Ambulatory Outcomes After SCI Using Machine Learning - Antecedents, Consequences and Interventions for Travel Participation After SCI - Biofeedback for Treatment of Anxiety Associated With Chronic SCI - Craig Caregiver Assessment of Rewards & Effort (C2ARE) - Validation of a New Tool to Assess Caregiver Distress & Benefit BRAIN INJURY

- Self-Advocacy for Independent Life (SAIL) After TBI - Development and Assessment of Crosswalks in the TBIMS Database - Caregiver Resilience: A Longitudinal Investigation - Return to Driving After Moderate-Severe TBI: Who, When, Where and How Safe? - BeHealthy - Chronic Disease Management for People With TBI - Discharge Planning After TBI - Development and Implementation of a TBI Registry and Outreach Program - Complementary and Integrative Healthcare (CIH) Utilization and Barriers to Utilization in People With TBI - Language Disorders in Traumatic Brain Injury - Virtual Reality and Treadmill Training After TBI SPINAL CORD INJURY/BRAIN INJURY

- Incidence/Timing of Diagnosis of Venothromboembolism in the TBIM and SCI Populations - Manual Wheelchair Configuration for Individuals With Hemiplegia: Effects of Frame Type on Efficiency of Propulsion

CANDY TEFERTILLER NAMED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

We are proud to share that our own Candy Tefertiller, PT, DPT, Ph.D., NCS was selected as Craig Hospital’s Executive Director of Research and Evaluation in March 2020. Her long tenure with Craig as our Director of Physical Therapy since 2010 and her ongoing, active involvement in research at our hospital position her to advance current and future research interests and needs in the field of neurorehabilitation. Her new role will lead the overall strategic direction of research and evaluation at Craig, serve as Craig’s newly established Endowed Chair of Research, and help ensure our hospital’s cutting-edge research is an immediate, powerful tool in shaping the future of SCI and BI rehabilitation.