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CLINICAL SCIENCE

Innovative Research Looks at Walking and Healthy Aging

Carolynn Patten, Ph.D., PT, FAPTA, director of the UC Davis Biomechanics, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Lab, is leading a study to understand the gait patterns of older adults in their natural environments. The study’s technology leverages computer vision and deep convolutional neural networks to perform 3D analysis.

Research

First in California to Offer Life-Changing Therapy for DMD

A 5-year-old boy diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the first in California and fourth in the nation to receive groundbreaking gene therapy outside of clinical trials. The treatment, years in the making, brings hope to as many as 12,000 people in the U.S. who live with DMD.

Craig McDonald, M.D., and patient
PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

UC Davis Health Opens Sacramento’s First Rehab Hospital

UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital is Sacramento County’s first freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital. Developed in collaboration with Lifepoint Rehabilitation, the 58,000-square-foot facility is equipped with leading-edge amenities and 52-beds, including a 12-bed brain injury unit and 3,100-square-foot physical therapy gym.

Awards and Recognitions
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Ranked among the nation’s best hospitals

A U.S. News & World Report best hospital in cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ENT, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, and pulmonology & lung surgery.

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The nation’s highest nursing honor

UC Davis Medical Center has received Magnet® recognition, the nation’s highest honor for nursing excellence.

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Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital

Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital by U.S. News, and high-performing in aortic valve surgery, back surgery (spinal fusion), COPD, colon cancer surgery, diabetes, gynecological cancer surgery, heart arrhythmia, heart failure, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, pacemaker implantation, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, TAVR, cancer, orthopedics, gastroenterology & GI surgery, and urology.

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