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Dr. Christou’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms that impair motor control with healthy aging and movement disorders, such as Essential Tremor and Ataxia. He is developing innovative rehabilitation tools to enhance function in people with motor control deficits.View More
FacultyStephen Coombes investigates how the brain controls movement and how the brain processes pain. He studies how these systems are altered in different chronic pain conditionings and leverages this knowledge to understand why interventions for chronic pain work, and how they can be improved. His current research is focused on combining virtual reality with brain imaging to understand how pain changes the way that we move and to better implement pain treatments to target neural activity to relive pain and restore function. He studies patients with chronic jaw pain and patients with chronic low back pain.View More
FacultyDr. Ahlgren specializes in Anatomy and Physiology teaching within the department. She was recognized by the University as the top undergraduate teacher for the University in 2016-2017. Her challenging courses are loved by students, and she plays a leading role in directing the Undergraduate Program for APK. View More
FacultyDr. Christou’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms that impair motor control with healthy aging and movement disorders, such as Essential Tremor and Ataxia. He is developing innovative rehabilitation tools to enhance function in people with motor control deficits.View More
FacultyThe Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology (APK) studies the immediate and lasting effects of exercise and its use in performance enhancement and disease prevention and rehabilitation. Degree specializations include exercise physiology, fitness/wellness, athletic training, biomechanics, sport and exercise psychology, motor learning and control and human performance.
As early as Fall 2019, qualified online master's degree programs will include tourism & recreation, applied physiology & kinesiology, health education & behavior, and mass communications.
Christou lab publishes a new paper in Journal of Neurophysiology focused on perturbations to motor planning.
APK assists in sponsorship for the The University of Florida's The Advances in Skeletal Muscle Biology in Health & Dsiease Conference.
The University of Florida’s Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration Program hosts Leadership from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Terence Ryan funded to offer a new approach to Peripheral Artery Disease. This novel approach provides long awaited hope that PAD patients may have treatment options in the future that will reduce their pain, exercise intolerance and life changing symptoms.
