To celebrate Spinal Cord Awareness Month in September, SHARP partnered with the UF Breathing Research and Therapeutics, or BREATHE, Center to showcase innovation in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, with lectures by prominent researchers and demonstrations featuring research participants with spinal cord injury.
On Thursday, September 18th, SHARP partnered with the Breathing Research and Therapeutics Center (BREATHE) to host a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Awareness Month event at Brooks Rehabilitation in Jacksonville, FL. Participants took a tour of the Brooks Rehabilitation Neuro Recovery Center, engaged with demonstrations…
For our second annual Research Open House, we invited people affected by spinal cord injury and clinicians to join together for a fun evening of trivia and sharing their experiences with research. Image Gallery…
Catherine Lang, PT, PhD, FASNR, FAPTA, is the Barbara J Norton Professor of Physical Therapy and Professor of Neurology and Occupational Therapy in the WashU Medicine Program in Physical Therapy. She visited Brooks Rehabilitation in June 2025 to present a Research Connection Seminar titled “Wearable sensing opens new windows to…
Chiung-Ju (CJ) Liu, PhD, OTR/L, FGSA is an Associate Professor in the University of Florida Department of Occupational Therapy in the College of Public Health and Health Professions. In April 2025 she presented a Research Connection seminar titled “Task-oriented resistance exercise to reduce late-life ADL disability: From science to practice.”…
In January 2025, James Finley, PhD, an associate professor at the University of Southern California, presented a seminar for the UF Rehabilitation Sciences Doctoral program. Before the seminar at UF, Dr. Finley visited Brooks Rehabilitation to connect with clinician scientists, research assistants, and engineers in the Motion Analysis Center.
We celebrated SCI Awareness Month (September) with a unique collaborative event co-hosted by the Brooks Rehabilitation Research Center, the University of Florida BREATHE Center, and SHARP. During the event, we brought together basic science researchers, PhD students, clinicians, research staff, and people with SCI. We hosted research demonstrations and facilitated…
The focus of SHARP is to create engagement and communication between those involved in SCI research and individuals with or affected by SCI. This event was focused on welcoming people with and affected by SCI and clinicians into the Brooks Rehabilitation Research Center to learn more and interact with each…
