With its modern facilities, comprehensive client-centric ethos, and high quality care, The Rehab Lab is a leading physical therapy clinic in the United States. Their expert team of therapists is renowned for transforming the lives and health of their clients, and their dedication to preventing major surgeries through meticulous therapy has earned them high recommendations from medical professionals.

Rehab Robotics Lab aims to develop innovative therapeutic robotics that can help humans relearn and restore movement following injuries like stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and ALS. The lab, which is part of Columbia University’s Engineering and Medicine campus, works closely with clinical staff at hospitals around New York City to translate research into real-world applications for patients.

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In order to do this, the twinning has focused on scaling up REHAB-LAB, an integrated FabLab inside a rehabilitation or medico-social organisation where patients can create their own assistive devices by 3D printing. The innovative concept, originally developed in Centre Mutualiste de Reéducation et de Réadaptation Fonctionnelles de Kerpape (Lorient, France), allows people with disabilities to become actors of their own rehabilitation by designing devices that are also more specific and responsive to their personal needs.

The twinning has been successful as it allowed for the transfer of the REHAB-LAB innovative concept to three adopters with different maturity levels and an initial set of trainings that have enabled a common frame of reference and sharing of practices. This will be further reinforced with the launch of a collaborative platform and with the start of a REHAB-LAB-4ALL twinning project with six more European organisations.