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HEART: Healing and Empowering Actions for Recovery from Trauma

Healing the Whole Patient

The HEART Trial is redefining recovery for orthopedic trauma patients by addressing both physical injuries and the emotional scars that often go untreated. This 5-year, multi-center study aims to create a new standard of care for mental health in trauma recovery.

HEART Trial Overview
SPIRIT Club: Fitness for All

Fitness for Brain Injury Recovery

The SPIRIT Club Trial is developing an evidence-based streaming platform to help chronic brain injury survivors stay active after rehab ends. This NIH-funded project adapts inclusive fitness programs to improve independence, quality of life, and neurocognitive recovery.

SPIRIT Club Trial
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Building Quality Improvement Capacity

The Regional QI Hub connects Ohio’s Colleges of Medicine to strengthen QI infrastructure and advance health equity. Supported by Ohio Department of Medicaid, the initiative offers training and collaborative support to improve population‑level outcomes.

Regional QI Hub

News

  • LIFT Lab Presents at ACSM's Annual Meeting

    oberyszyn.3@osu.edu | June 15, 2026
    Congratulations to Matt Paponetti and colleagues on their presentation at the 2026 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting! Their talk, “Physical Activity for Life: Clinical Strategies for Adolescents on Obesity Management Medications,” highlighted emerging approaches to integrating physical activity into care for adolescents receiving GLP-1 medications. This important work contributes...
    Presentation at ACSM

  • Jenny Receives the HRS Distinguished Research Staff Member Award!

    oberyszyn.3@osu.edu | June 8, 2026
    Congratulations to Jenny on receiving the Distinguished Research Staff Member Award at the 2026 HRS End of Year Awards Celebration in May! Nominated by her colleagues and selected from a pool of five candidates by the HRS Recognition Committee, this honor recognizes her sustained and outstanding contributions to HRS. The Distinguished Research Staff Member Award is presented to individuals who...

  • SPIRIT Club Project Presentations at CBIRD

    oberyszyn.3@osu.edu | June 3, 2026
    Alexa Plotkin, Rylie Severson, research assistants in the LIFT Lab, and Dr. Yogesh Kumaran presented posters at the Center for Brain Injury Recovery & Discovery Research Day (CBIRD) on March 26 th. Alexa’s poster described the feasibility of the online fitness platform, Rylie’s poster focused on the pilot portion of the study, and Yogesh touched on our ongoing work in the clinical trial. This was...
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