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Last updated: October 5, 2007

iDAPT
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It will be one of the world's most advanced rehabilitation research and development facilities - a place where new therapies and assistive technologies will be developed for people recovering from, and living with, disabling injury or illness.

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The motion simulator: ready for use

The $4.5 million state-of-the-art simulator will be able to recreate environmental conditions that other simulators cannot reproduce.

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Conducting research in the CEAL lab

Researcher monitors results in the control room

Computers display images from inside the simulator;

Ice chamber payload sits atop the simulator.

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Lowering a payload onto the motion simulator platform

One of the CEAL’s six payload bays;

Six metres in diameter, the simulator's circular platform can be rotated in any direction.

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Inside the motion simulator: studying mobility

Research subject walks on icy surface;

Red markers allow researchers to measure body movement with digital imaging.

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The Home Environment Laboratory and Institutional Environment Laboratory

Researcher at workstation;

Realistic home setting of the Home Environment Lab;

A typical institutional patient care room in the Institutional Environment Lab;

Steel catwalk provides access to overhead equipment;

Adjustable overhead frame and tracking for patient lifting and transportation.

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The iDAPT Innovations Gallery

Products and research findings from iDAPT will be on display in this interactive space.

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Sleep Apnea
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Heart failure patients with untreated sleep apnea are more likely to die than those without this sleep disorder, says a study to be published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Anne Meda's heart condition improved significantly after she began to use a CPAP to treat her sleep apnea

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On Track to Cardiac Recovery Walk-a-thon
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On Saturday, February 17, 2007, Toronto Rehab’s Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Program and Toronto Rehab Foundation hosted the 4th annual On Track to Cardiac Recovery fundraising walk in support of the program’s diabetes service and diabetes related research.

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RoseAnn Pacheco takes control of her diabetes and gets her health back on track with the help of Toronto Rehab's diabetes service.

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