Foundation recipients in the news. (Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants).Steven Z George, PT, PhD, a 2000 PODS I and 2003 PODS II recipient, is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Pain Research and Behavioral Health and the Brooks Center for Rehabilitation Studies at the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. , Gainesville, Fla. Dr George also teaches the Development of Case Study I and II courses, and the Scientific Basis of Physical Therapy course in the university's Master of Physical Therapy The Master of Physical Therapy (MPT) is a postbaccalaureate degree conferred upon successful completion of an accredited Physical therapy professional education program. Successful candidates are then qualified to apply for and take the Physical Therapy national licensure exam (in program. During the period of his Foundation support at the University of Pittsburgh, George--with Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, ATC ATC Air Traffic Control ATC Average Total Cost ATC Certified Athletic Trainer ATC At the Center (Hartford, Maine retreat center) ATC Applied Technology Council ATC All Things Considered , Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy--investigated the influence of psychosocial factors on recovery from acute low back pain. He investigated the role of fear-avoidance beliefs with current and future disability and work status with Fritz and Anthony Delitto, PT, PhD, FAPTA FAPTA Fellows of the American Physical Therapy Association , Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physical Therapy, and Vice President for Education and Research, Centers for Rehabilitation Services. With Fritz and Richard E Erhard, DC, PT, Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy Department, University of Pittsburgh, George investigated the presence of fear-avoidance beliefs in a sample of patients with cervical spine pain and compared the association of pain intensity, disability and fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with cervical spine pain to patients with lumbar spine pain. George's dissertation focused on whether physical therapy intervention based on a fear-avoidance model had a differential effect on future disability at 4 weeks posttreatment compared to treatment based on biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to biomedicine. 2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences. principles. George submitted the following publications during his period of Foundation support: Fritz JM, George SZ, Delitto A. The role of fear-avoidance beliefs in acute low back pain: relationships with current and future disability and work status. Pain. 2001; 94(1); 7-15. George SZ, Fritz JM, Ehrhard RE. A comparison of fear-avoidance beliefs in patients with lumbar spine pain and cervical spine pain. Spine. 2001; 26: 2139-2145. Fritz JM, George SZ. Identifying specific psychosocial factors in patients with acute, work-related low back pain: the importance of fear avoidance beliefs. Phys Ther. (In press.) George SZ, Symptom characteristics of patients treated with slump stretching. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2002; 32:391-398. Sheila Schindler Ivens, PT, PhD, recently submitted to the Foundation her dissertation, "Soleus so·le·us n. A muscle with origin from the head and shaft of the fibula, the medial margin of the tibia, and the tendinous arch passing between the tibia and fibula, with insertion into the tuberosity of the calcaneus, with nerve supply from the tibial H-Reflex Threshold, Gain, and Amplitude in Individuals With and Without Spinal Cord Injury Spinal Cord Injury Definition Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Description Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States. ," which was in partial fulfillment of her PhD in physical rehabilitation from the University of Iowa Not to be confused with Iowa State University. The first faculty offered instruction at the University in March 1855 to students in the Old Mechanics Building, situated where Seashore Hall is now. In September 1855, the student body numbered 124, of which, 41 were women. . Richard K Shields, PT, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair of the Physical Therapy Program at the University of Iowa, was Dr Schindler-Ivens' thesis supervisor. Dr Shindler-Ivens is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Northwestern University, where she is funded by an institutional training grant from the National Institutes of Health. She is working with David Brown, PT, PhD, a 1993 Foundation funding recipient. Schindler-Ivens' research interest at Northwestern is abnormal locomotor lo·co·mo·tor or lo·co·mo·tive adj. Of or relating to movement from one place to another. locomotor of or pertaining to locomotion. muscle timing poststroke. She is developing a training regimen to improve locomotion in persons poststroke. Schindler-Ivens is a 1998 and 1999 PODS I and 2002 PODS II scholarship recipient. |
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