- Motor Control Summer School and 6th Motor Control Conference 2024, Wisla, Poland - Motor Control Summer School 2024 (MCSS-2024) took place in Ustron, Poland on September 14-17, 2024.…
BME Capstone Design - URI BME Capstone Design Showcase took place on April 19, 2024, and presented 8 medical… 
Development Grant: “Establishing a protocol for utilizing indwelling fine wire intramuscular electromyography (EMG) equipment in rotator cuff muscle assessment.” - We are happy to announce that the MCR-Lab has been awarded a grant under the… 
2024 College of Health Sciences Research Night - MCR-Lab, represented by undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Physical Therapy and Bioengineering,… 
2nd Annual Neuroscience Symposium, April 5, 2024 - The Motor Control and Rehabilitation lab featured its research on Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization… - Biomechanics Day – April 3, 2024 - This month, members of the Motor Control and Rehabilitation lab as well as URI DPT…
URI DPT at APTA CSM: Boston 2024 - Last month, students and faculty of the URI DPT program and Motor Control and Rehabilitation… 
Repair-Eds: Rehabilitation Enhanced By Partial Arterial Inflow Restriction in Patients with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. - Justin Z. Laferrier, PT, PhD, Taylor Medeiros, SPT, Kenneth Shin, SPT, Sebastian Valdes, SPT and… 
Researching Total Knee Arthroplasty - URI DPT students are participating in their Capstone research projects utilizing EMG and APDM sensors… 
Spring Semester 2024 - Current students are immersed in new research at the MCR-Lab. From developing assistive technologies to… 
URI’s new Neuro-Learning Center to boost brain education - College of Health Sciences Professors Mariusz Furmanek and Alisa Baron, along with collaborators Mark Hartman,… 
Robotic rehab aims to help stroke patients regain hand dexterity - Research in URI Motor Control and Rehabilitation lab funded by $460,000 grant from National Science… 
Motor Control Lab research presented at NEACSM - David Ornstein and Tyler Foster, Ph.D. candidates within the PHT Department and MCR-Lab members, presented… 
Motor Control Lab members at NEACSM - URI Kinesiology undergraduate students, including MCR-Lab member Zoe Hetrick, participated in the NEACSM annual conference… 
Dr. R. Abiri (PI), Dr. Y. Shahriari (Co-PI) and Dr. M. Furmanek (Co-PI) were awarded a $460K NSF grant to study “An Adaptive Closed-Loop Robotic Exoskeleton for Upper Extremity Motor Rehabilitation.” Congratulations! - This project's goals will be accomplished through three research thrusts: 1) developing a multimodal, wearable… 
Physical Therapy Department unveils Motor Control and Rehabilitation Lab - Demonstrating its advanced technology—including 3D motion capture, virtual reality, EMG and more—physical therapy Assistant Professor… 
MCR-Lab Open House! - Wondering what kind of research is performed and what technology is used in the Motor… 
MCR-Lab Receives Medical Research Grant of 25,000 - Great news! PI of the MCR-Lab Dr. Mariusz Furmanek just received a Medical Research Grant…
