The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation

NeuroRecovery Network at Boston Medical Center

Click here for information about 2009 Regional Training

Locomotor Training Principles and Practice

an Activity-Based Therapy Course

 

            

NRN at BMC Staff
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony marking the opening of the NRN at BMC March 2, 2007
Locomotor Training at the NRN at BMC

 

NRN Mission

To provide support for the development of specialized  centers that provide standardized rehabilitation care based on current scientific and clinical evidence for people with spinal cord injury and other selected neurological disorders.  Initially the NRN will focus on Locomotor Training.

The Christopher Reeve Foundation has selected the New England Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center at Boston Medical Center as a member of the NeuroRecovery Network (NRN). One of only seven centers in the country, and the only center in the New England area, the NRN at BMC is part of a cooperative network of cutting-edge rehabilitation centers designed to provide and develop therapies, currently Locomotor training, to promote functional recovery and improve the heath and quality of life of people living with paralysis. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through a cooperative agreement with the Christopher Reeve Foundation, the NRN translates the latest scientific advances into effective, activity-based rehabilitation treatments.

Each center in the network is staffed with a group of dedicated professionals who have received specialized training in order to deliver the NRN’s therapies.  The staff includes center directors, physicians, data managers, physical therapists and rehab technicians.

For more information about NRN at BMC, contact Jane Wierbicky by calling 617-638-7316, or click here to email the NRN at BMC.

 

  NRN at BMC in the News

 

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NeuroRecovery Network Brochure        

 

The NeuroRecovery Network currently includes the following rehabilitation facilities:

Frazier Rehab Institute (lead center)

Louisville, KY

Ohio State University Medical Center

Columbus, OH

Boston Medical Center

Boston, MA

Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research and Education Center/Kellser Institute for Rehabilitation

West Orange, NJ

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Philadelphia, PA

Shepherd Center

Atlanta, GA

The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research

Houston, TX