The research initiatives and opportunities recommended in the Research Plan (154 KB) for the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research are discussed in terms of seven cross-cutting areas in which increased research effort is needed. Those areas are:
- improving functional mobility
- promoting behavioral adaptation to functional losses
- assessing the efficacy and outcomes to medical rehabilitation therapies and practices
- developing improved assistive technologies
- understanding whole body system responses to physical impairments and functional changes
- developing more precise methods of measuring impairments, disabilities, and societal and functional limitations
- training research scientists in the field of rehabilitation
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