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| TITLE SLIDE: NICHD Rehabilitation Research: Funding Technology, Inspiring Ability A Get to Know NICHD Video Animation with fade-in of title and NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development logos. Montage of a toddler driving a special miniature car, a woman wearing a MusicGlove and flexing her fingers, and a man using a bionic arm to stack disposable cups. |
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| Camera view of Dr. Alison Cernich. Banner Text: Alison Cernich, Ph.D. Director, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), NICHD |
Dr. Alison Cernich: The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, which is within NICHD, has as its mission to foster scientific knowledge to improve the health, productivity, quality of life, and independence of people with disabilities. |
| (Edit/camera cut) Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: So we have a number of innovative projects that we’ve funded, and one of them is a really exciting project that we’ve started funding recently that came to us from another funding agency, and that’s GoBabyGo! And this is a project where the investigator and his team, Cole Galloway … |
| Montage of workers modifying toy cars. | Dr. Cernich: ... have modified toy cars like you would get at Toys“R”Us … |
| Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: ... and they’ve made them mobility devices for children who aren’t yet at … |
| Montage of workers modifying toy cars. | Dr. Cernich: … the age where they can use a motorized wheelchair. And they’ve adapted these devices, too, in such a … |
| Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … way that they have a therapeutic benefit. So some of the cars require the child to … |
| Montage of children driving modified toy cars. | Dr. Cernich: ... shift their weight; some of them require them to stand to move the device; and others of them ask them to do a different postural control, so it makes them tighten up their tummy and sit straight where they may have difficulty doing that. And using … |
| Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … the device also helps these children to be integrated, so they’re able to participate in activities more than they would have been had they been in a passive push … |
| Montage of children driving modified toy cars. | Dr. Cernich: ... wheelchair, and they aren’t at the age yet where they can use a motorized wheelchair. We have … |
| Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … some very exciting projects that we’ve been funding for at-home rehabilitation techniques. So these are techniques that people can use in their home to enhance their rehabilitation or to continue to practice and improve. And one of those is … |
| Fade to zooming-in photo of a hand wearing a MusicGlove. | Dr. Cernich: … the MusicGlove. There’s a glove that goes on the person’s hand … |
| Fade to Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … with sensors on leads. And as the individual plays the game, they’re also practicing fine motor movements. |
| Video of a man using a MusicGlove to play a computer game. | Dr. Cernich: So it was originally developed for individuals with stroke … |
| Video from a computer screen during a game similar to Guitar Hero, testing one’s ability to make the right moves in rhythm. | Dr. Cernich: … but it can be adapted for anyone who has muscle weakness, and so it could also … |
| Video of a man using a MusicGlove to play a computer game. | Dr. Cernich: … benefit individuals with traumatic brain injury. Anybody … |
| Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … who has a fine motor movement problem in their hands could really benefit from this type of device. |
| (Edit/camera cut) Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: What’s also been exciting for NCMRR is when we’ve had investigators come to us with really breakthrough technologies, where they have combined a number of different approaches to make the use of an assistive device or a prosthetic intuitive for the user. And I think one of the examples that we have of that comes to us from Todd Kuiken at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. |
| Montage of people testing their new bionic arms. | Dr. Cernich: And what that team has been able to do is to make a bionic arm, an arm that’s integrated—that’s a robot with a person. And they’ve been able to … |
| Fade to a sketch of a man with a bionic arm, animated to demonstrate signals from the nervous system causing the arm to move. | Dr. Cernich: … use the person’s nerves to drive the control of this bionic arm. And what was even more surprising about this project … |
| Fade to Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … and really was science done right, where you got something that you didn’t expect, was, they also got sensory input … |
| Fade to a sketch of a man with a bionic arm, animated to demonstrate sensory input moving from the arm to the brain. | Dr. Cernich: … back to the nerve. So it really poses a great opportunity for us to not only get the motor input to a robotic arm for … |
| Fade to Dr. Cernich on camera. | Dr. Cernich: … a person who’s lost their arm and their hand, but also to get sensation back to that person so it helps them to control it and interact with their environment. |
| Fade to NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development logo, with text animated to appear gradually: For more information, visit www.nichd.nih.gov |
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| Credits GoBabyGo! – University of Delaware MusicGlove – Flint Rehabilitation Devices Bionic Arm – Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago |
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