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This has been a great year for the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai. The Department has experienced growth in clinical programs, research, education, and innovation. Clinically, the Department continues to provide evidence-based service to local communities while expanding our expertise across the country and worldwide.

Our Department is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 17 programs across the continuum including Spinal Cord System of Care, Brain Injury, Stroke, Amputation Specialty Program, and Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Program (CIIRP). The Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center is the only center in New York City accredited in all of these specialty areas, demonstrating our commitment and dedication to excellence in care for varied populations. The Mount Sinai Hospital is nationally ranked for Rehabilitation by U.S. News & World Report® for 2024-25.

This has been a great year for the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai. The Department has experienced growth in clinical programs, research, education, and innovation. Clinically, the Department continues to provide evidence-based service to local communities while expanding our expertise across the country and worldwide.

Our Department is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in 17 programs across the continuum including Spinal Cord System of Care, Brain Injury, Stroke, Amputation Specialty Program, and Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Program (CIIRP). The Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center is the only center in New York City accredited in all of these specialty areas, demonstrating our commitment and dedication to excellence in care for varied populations. The Mount Sinai Hospital is nationally ranked for Rehabilitation by U.S. News & World Report® for 2024-25.

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Online Spinal Cord Injury Programs Scale to New Heights Post-Pandemic

Online Spinal Cord Injury Programs Scale to New Heights Post-Pandemic

What started out as spinal cord injury programs going online out of necessity during the COVID pandemic gained traction over the years.

A New Facility for Rehabilitation Medicine and Human Performance

A New Facility for Rehabilitation Medicine and Human Performance

A long overdue revamp of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine's inpatient unit is set to improve patient care, modernize equipment, as well as take education and research capabilities to new levels.

Rehabilitation and Human Performance 2025

Rehabilitation and Human Performance 2025

The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai has been dedicated to advancing human performance and solving barriers for those with disabilities since 1910. From sprains and strains to severe injuries affecting ...

Welcome from the Chair

Welcome from the Chair

The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai continued to excel in 2024, building upon the successes of our previous years. It was a year of remarkable growth and achievements across our clinical, research, and educational programs.

Breaking Ground on Long COVID's Impact on Biology and Its Immunologic Basis

Breaking Ground on Long COVID's Impact on Biology and Its Immunologic Basis

The chronic disease state known as “Long COVID”—characterized by symptoms that develop and persist after the initial COVID-19 infection—has affected many, but understanding of it remains nascent. A group of Mount Sinai researchers have ...

A Sports Fellowship Unlike Any Other Nationwide

A Sports Fellowship Unlike Any Other Nationwide

Fellows training at the sports medicine fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been kept busy with a myriad partnership opportunities—including treating athletes from the national fencing team. The program is set ...

A Needed Voice For Brain Injury Survivors

A Needed Voice For Brain Injury Survivors

A card to help people with traumatic brain injury communicate to others the nature of their condition can be helpful, but there hasn’t been a study of its benefits or limitations. A Mount Sinai study delved into where such a card is most ...

Improving PTSD Treatment for Female Veterans When Gold Standard Fails

Improving PTSD Treatment for Female Veterans When Gold Standard Fails

For female veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, sometimes the gold standard treatment isn’t sufficient. A Mount Sinai study aims to tackle this problem by combining it with an intervention designed by its researchers that had ...

A Novel Neuromodulation Device for Neuropathic Pain

A Novel Neuromodulation Device for Neuropathic Pain

A novel technology for neuropathic pain could offer relief for many patients for whom conventional treatments have limited effectiveness. A study in which Mount Sinai was a key investigator found promise for this new device.

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Physicians Featured in new Documentary film “Quad Gods”

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Physicians Featured in new Documentary film “Quad Gods”

See the official trailer for the Quad Gods documentary on HBO

Rehabilitation and Human Performance 2024

Rehabilitation and Human Performance 2024

The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai has been dedicated to advancing human performance and solving barriers for those with disabilities since 1910.

Welcome from the Chair

Welcome from the Chair

The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at Mount Sinai continues to outdo itself each year, and 2023 likewise saw achievements in our clinical, research, and education programs.

A Service Trip to Namibia, A Lasting Impact on Rehabilitation Medicine

A Service Trip to Namibia, A Lasting Impact on Rehabilitation Medicine

What started as a service trip for a Mount Sinai physician in Windhoek, Namibia turned into an initiative over the years that saw her training local healthcare workers in administering injection treatments.

Implementing Emotion Dysregulation Training for Therapists: From Research to Real-World

Implementing Emotion Dysregulation Training for Therapists: From Research to Real-World

Even after a clinical trial succeeds, the findings can take time before making their way into the clinic.

Novel Research Reveals the Neuropathology of Intimate Partner Violence

Novel Research Reveals the Neuropathology of Intimate Partner Violence

A Mount Sinai researcher conducted a postmortem study on the neuropathology of people impacted by intimate partner violence.

Rethinking Chronic Conditions Through a Cutting-Edge New Center

Rethinking Chronic Conditions Through a Cutting-Edge New Center

Despite the awareness that patients can suffer lasting symptoms after an acute condition, such as COVID-19, there are not many dedicated around the country addressing this phenomenon.

Defining Traumatic Brain Injury With Codes, Uplifting Research In The Field

Defining Traumatic Brain Injury With Codes, Uplifting Research In The Field

Despite traumatic brain injury research having taken off in the past two decades, there still is no consensus definition for the condition, making it hard to make rigorous comparisons between studies.

People with Long COVID Have Distinct Hormonal and Immune Differences From Those Without This Condition

People with Long COVID Have Distinct Hormonal and Immune Differences From Those Without This Condition

Long COVID patients have clear differences in immune and hormone function from patients without the condition, according to a new study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Yale School of Medicine.

Brain Injury Research Center Director Aims to Answer the Big Questions

Brain Injury Research Center Director Aims to Answer the Big Questions

Kristen Dams-O'Connor, PhD, as Director of the Brain Injury Research Center, is pushing the frontiers of traumatic brain injury research with innovative studies and programs, with the help of national grants.

Shedding Light on Head Trauma Outcomes for Women

Shedding Light on Head Trauma Outcomes for Women

A new faculty member joins Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and will explore head trauma and brain injury among cisgender women and the transgender population, especially at the intersection with intimate partner violence.

Minimally Invasive Technology Offers Paralyzed People Greater Function

Minimally Invasive Technology Offers Paralyzed People Greater Function

For the first time in the United States, people with severe paralysis are receiving minimally invasive implants that allow them to communicate and perform computer-based tasks at home.

Mount Sinai Physician Serves Many Roles for USA Fencing

Mount Sinai Physician Serves Many Roles for USA Fencing

Mariam Zakhary, DO, wears many hats at Mount Sinai, including sports medicine physician and medical director of Downtown Rehabilitation and Human Performance.

Toy Car-Making Hackathon Helps Kids With Disabilities

Toy Car-Making Hackathon Helps Kids With Disabilities

Members of the Charles Lazarus Children’s Abilities Center got together to participate in a hackathon to reimagine ride-on toy cars for children with disabilities, turning physical therapy into a fun and memorable experience.

Quad Gods Defy the Odds, Take Gaming to New Heights

Quad Gods Defy the Odds, Take Gaming to New Heights

A patient struggling to adjust to his quadriplegia gains the idea to form a competitive e-sports team with other similar patients from Mount Sinai, and the team has gone on to win tournaments, even against other players without disabilities.

At Mount Sinai’s Lazarus Center, Kids Take Center Stage

At Mount Sinai’s Lazarus Center, Kids Take Center Stage

The mission of the Charles Lazarus Children’s Abilities Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ambitious: To provide children who have disabilities with every tool, resource, and opportunity possible to achieve their full potential.

Taking Emotional Dysregulation Intervention Online Shows Promise

Taking Emotional Dysregulation Intervention Online Shows Promise

Building on decades of progress of emotional dysregulation intervention research, Mount Sinai scientists launched a randomized controlled trial using online video conferencing to deliver a therapy that targets emotional dysregulation post-traumatic ...

Rehabilitation and Human Performance Specialty Report 2023

Rehabilitation and Human Performance Specialty Report 2023

Welcome from the Chair: This has been a great year for the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance. The Department has experienced growth in clinical programs, research, education, and innovation.

Mount Sinai Rehab Grand Rounds - Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Overview

Mount Sinai Rehab Grand Rounds - Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Overview

Dr. Margetis gives rehabilitation professionals a current overview of Cervical Myelopathy. Review of the condition, case study example, and current surgical options overview.