Faculty Areas of Interest
Aside from the three established research labs in the School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science, faculty and students are engaged in a variety of other areas of research and scholarship. Accessing each faculty member’s page within the website will provide you with more specific evidence of the direction of their work, but general areas of interest include:
Fehrer, Steve - Practice patterns in the acute care and long-term care environments; management of balance and vestibular disorders; management of the medically complex geriatric client; applied exercise physiology of the geriatric client
Gajdosik, Carrie - Physical therapy assessment and intervention for infants and children with disabilities and their families; pediatric physical therapy in developing nations; secondary conditions in adults with developmental disabilities
Gajdosik, Rich - Functional clinical anatomy and kinesiology; reliability and validity of physical therapy measurements; aging and biological tissue adaptations to therapeutic interventions; movement analysis; muscle-tendon unit passive elastic and viscoelastic properties and adaptations; strength assessment and adaptations
Humphrey, Reed - exercise and chronic heart failure; exercise testing and oxygen kinetics; exercise and community-based interventions
Ikeda, Beth - orthopedic measurement; musculoskeletal changes of aging; spine dysfunction
Laskin, James - applied exercise physiology; sports and recreation for people with physical disabilities; physical fitness for disabled populations; health promotion and secondary condition risk reduction
Leonard, Chuck - research on neonatal and adult-onset brain damage, spasticity and motor control with work that concentrates on the neural mechanisms of disability.
Levison, Dave - promotion and enhancement of clinical education; understanding and resolving conflict in clinical education; physical therapist as the provider of choice; improving the business of health care
Li, Sheng - motor control of the hand; hand impairment and rehabilitation following stroke; neurophysiology of motor imagery; respiratory-motor interactions
Mize, Kim - women's health issues in physical therapy; examination and rehabilitation of running injuries; clinical education in physical therapy; evidence-based practice
