Recipients in the news.The Department of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy and the Department of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , have been awarded a $400,000 2-year grant from the Kinetics Foundation to study the effects of body-weight-supported treadmill training (BWSTT) in individuals with Parkinson disease. Principal investigator James Gordon, PT, EdD, and co-principal investigator Beth Fisher, PT, PhD, will determine whether task-specific, high-intensity 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. training using BWSTT modulates disease progression and retards the development of specific motor deficits in individuals with early-stage Parkinson disease. Dr Gordon and is a members of the research team of the Foundation-funded Clinical Research Network (CRN CRN Computer Reseller News CRN Crown CRN Council for Responsible Nutrition CRN Crane CRN Community Recycling Network CRN Course Reference Number CRN Center for Responsible Nanotechnology CRN Cornish (SIL code, UK) ), "PTClinResNet." Dr Fisher is a 1997 and 1998 Foundation doctoral scholarship recipient. Katherine J Sullivan, PT, PhD, University of Southern California, is the recipient of the 2003 Licht Licht (Light), subtitled "The Seven Days of the Week," is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen which, in total, lasts over 29 hours. Origin The project, originally titled Hikari Award. This award is presented by the Editorial Board of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physical medicine and rehabilitation or physiatry or physical therapy or rehabilitation medicine Medical specialty treating chronic disabilities through physical means to help patients return to a comfortable, productive life despite a medical "to authors whose papers present potential significance and empirical and theoretical contributions to rehabilitation medicine" for her article, "Step Training with Body Weight Support: Effect of Treadmill Speed and Practice Paradigms on Poststroke Locomotor Recovery." (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2002; 83:683-691). This paper reports that training at speeds comparable with normal walking velocity is more effective in improving self-selected overground O´ver`ground´ a. 1. Situated over or above ground; as, the overground portion of a plant s>. walking velocity than training at speeds at or below the patient's typical overground walking velocity. Dr Sullivan is a 1996 Foundation doctoral scholarship and 1997 grant recipient. Neva J Kirk-Sanchez, PT, PhD, a 2000 PODS II and 2003 Foundation research grant recipient, recently had an article, "The Importance of Psychosocial Factors in Determining Disability and Perceived Health in a Group of Older Hispanic-Americans Recovering from Hip Fracture," published in the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy (2003;26; 3-8). The work fur this article was completed as part of her doctoral dissertation at the University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U and was funded by her PODS II scholarship. |
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