Tatiana Luna wins a 3-year pre-doctoral fellowship grant from New York State Spinal Cord Injury Board

March 28, 2019

Upper body trunk control is important for people in wheelchairs, specially for those with spinal cord injury.  Tatiana's PhD research  will explore how patients with SCI can regain trunk control. The three main goals of her project are: (i) perform a pilot study to characterize seated posture and trunk control in SCI patients using a novel robotic device TRUST (Trunk Support Trainer), developed at ROAR labs, (ii) Design a multi-session training paradigm using TruST to study how SCI subjects can restore seated postural control, (iii) Design and develop a wearable upper-body rehabilitation device that is more accessible to SCI patients. Her research will be jointly mentored by Prof. Sunil Agrawal and Dr. Joel Stein.