Movement for Everyone
The RESTORE team is a collaborative research team committed to optimizing movement and quality of life in older adults, through innovative research and educational excellence. The team is comprised of dedicated faculty research assistants, post-doctoral fellows, PhD and master's students, Doctor of Physical Therapy students and interns, supported by a network of multidisciplinary collaborators.
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The American Health Care Association and the University of Colorado (CU) RESTORE Team are pleased to offer High Intensity Physical Rehabilitation in Medically Complex Populations.
Research Areas
- Utilizing and integrating telehealth platforms for the assessment and treatment of older adults with medically complex conditions
- Providing progressive rehabilitation and behavioral interventions in a virtual setting after COVID-19 illness
- Adapting rehabilitation interventions for telehealth settings including individuals after total joint replacement, COVID-19, and medically complex older adults
- Establishing effective methods to administer outcomes assessments and treatments remotely, using wearable technologies
- Pursuing pragmatic trials to implement rehabilitation interventions in a variety of settings including skilled nursing, home health, and outpatient settings
- Implementing personalized, predictive analytics combined with shared decision making to inform post-operative rehabilitation
- Engaging in approaches to reducing unproductive variability in clinical practice
- Pursing functional outcomes across disciplines to better inform preventive care
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- Leading innovative, multimodal rehabilitation interventions that focus on defining the optimal combination of interventions and dosing to accelerate recovery following injury or disease
- Engaging in comparative effectiveness trials to determine efficacy and effectiveness of physical therapy approaches in individuals
- Leveraging wearables and innovative technology to improve rehabilitation outcomes
- Performing predictive analytics to inform shared decision-making and improve patient outcomes and experiences
- Leveraging individual-level data in clinical practice
- Implementing collaborative care models to promote patient self-efficacy
- Identifying functional changes in real-time and enhancing interventions and outcomes by leveraging technology, including the use of wearable technology
- Determining genetic influences on muscle atrophy and hypertrophy that contribute to movement dysfunction and early functional decline
- Investigating rehabilitation's impact on healthcare utilization
- Leveraging 'Big Data' to inform practice guidelines