Tour 1: The Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory and the Neurorehabilitation Lab, The Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine, Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center.

The Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory is a part of the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine, a collaboration between the Providence VA Medical Center and Brown University. The mission of the Center is to improve function for individuals with limb trauma by developing technologically advanced solutions for the restoration of limb function. The research program in the Gait and Motion Analysis Lab is directed towards developing advanced technology assessment tools to complete the restoration of function by advanced rehabilitation. Currently, the lab is focused on the evaluation and development of prostheses to improve function in lower extremity amputee patients, osteoarthritis and the use of virtual reality in rehabilitation. Participants will also tour the Neurorehabilitation Lab at the Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine. The Neurorehabilitation Lab is focused on upper extremity rehabilitation post-stroke and lower extremity rehabilitation in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. The lab uses the Lokomat, Anklebot robots, MIT-Manus robots, Armeo robots, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, and GAITRite instrumented electronic walkway to study and evaluate subjects.

Tour 2: Brown University facility for X-ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM).

This lab tour will feature new technology for three-dimensional imaging of rapid skeletal motions, XROMM (see www.xromm.org for details). Participants will also tour comparative biomechanics labs at Brown, including laboratories that study fish feeding and biomechanics, bat flight, and frog jumping. See the web site for details of the facility. This tour complements Tutorial 2.