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Dr. Tripp is the Director of the Graduate Athletic Training Program. His current research focuses on exertional heat illness and concussions in athletes and injuries in overhead-throwing athletes. He specializes in orthopedic assessment, diagnostic imaging, and law and risk management in sports medicine. He serves the National Athletic Training Association on regional and national committees, and he acts as an expert witness in litigation regarding athletic training services. View More
FacultyDr. Cauraugh’s research interests include bilateral movement capabilities during stroke motor recovery. Force production with an impaired hand, an unimpaired hand, and both hands tougher provide information on progress toward motor recovery. Dr. Cauraugh’s lab conducts meta-analyses to determine the overall effect of various treatments across a broad group of studies. View More
FacultyDr. Vaillancourt’s research focuses on how the brain regulates voluntary and involuntary movement with a specific focus on motor disorders. His research program uses advanced neuroimaging techniques to study the functional and structural changes in the brain of humans and animal models that span Parkinsonism, tremor, dystonia, and Alzheimer’s disease. View More
FacultyDr. Tripp is the Director of the Graduate Athletic Training Program. His current research focuses on exertional heat illness and concussions in athletes and injuries in overhead-throwing athletes. He specializes in orthopedic assessment, diagnostic imaging, and law and risk management in sports medicine. He serves the National Athletic Training Association on regional and national committees, and he acts as an expert witness in litigation regarding athletic training services. 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.
Coombes lab provides a new atlas and template outlining the sub-regions of the cortico-spinal tract using novel technology.
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.
