Thank you for visiting my Capstone site!!     My Story: I have loved sports from as far back as I can remember. There is actually home video of me rolling a ball back and forth to my father before … Read more

My capstone project was inspired by clinical rotations I had in rural communities and by the Service Learning Trip I took in spring 2011 to Tyrrell County, NC. I experienced firsthand how obesity is affecting people in rural communities and … Read more

INTRODUCTION The ageing population in North Carolinais at a critical point in history.  The number of persons aged 65 and older in NC increased 25.7% between 2000 and 2010, to 12.9% of the state’s total population (UNC, 2011).  In addition, … Read more

The purpose of my project was to perform the groundwork for implementing a Pediatric Physical Therapy Residency Program at a large academic medical center.  This included surveying potential future residents and clinical faculty, performing a gap analysis and identifying the … Read more

Early Intervention Physical Therapy Amanda Reed Hello, and thank you for your interest in my capstone project! Growing up with a mother who worked in special education I always knew I wanted to work with children. Once I started teaching … Read more

Welcome! FROM TO   Background:  How did this project come to fruition? My interest in research began during my undergraduate education at the University of Delaware.  During my junior and senior year, I was an undergraduate research aid in the … Read more

Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain Chronic Low Back Pain has intrigued me throughout PT school.  The complexity typically involved in these cases has challenged me to think critically, holistically, and outside-the-box.While listening to the lecture on Treatment-Based Classification Systems during … Read more

Hello all! My capstone is an instructional piece that deals with simple tips to prevent low back pain (LBP) to be used in the waiting room of a primary care clinic in Antigua, Guatemala.  The hope is that those patients … Read more

My project is a research-oriented Capstone culminating in a manuscript that will eventually be published. The research looks at the relationship between limb loading and muscle activity with an effort to evaluate the effect of body weight support (BWS) on … Read more