Kenneth C Ngwu Jr., SPT INTRODUCTION As a former collegiate athlete, I’ve had the pleasure of utilizing kettlebells for improvement of sports performance. I have also utilized them during many CrossFit workouts for maintenance of my overall health and fitness. … Read more

     Overview Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations (APTA). 4 … Read more

Locomotor Training for the Traumatic Brain Injury Population http://www.msktc.org/sci/factsheets/Gait-Training-and-SCI Meredith Haigh Overview Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and impairment in young adults in America.1 Injury leading to TBI occurs in 1.5 to 2 million people … Read more

by Ryan Rubio, SPT Introduction Finding activities for pediatric patients that are both therapeutic and enjoyable enough to keep a child engaged can be difficult as I discovered on my clinical rotation in the Durham Public School System. While trying … Read more

Overview As a third year DPT student who is interested in the orthopedic setting, I have noticed a surge in popularity surrounding platelet rich plasma (PRP) in the use for multiple injuries. For my final capstone assignment, I chose to … Read more

Multidirectional Instability and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome: Evaluation and Treatment of the Shoulder Jessica Rolle, SPT Spring 2014                                               1 … Read more

Translating the Clinical Practice Guideline for Congenital Muscular Torticollis into Parent Education Marian Stein, PT Introduction: Infants with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) are frequently seen in clinical practice in typically developing infants and infants with atypical development. The association between … Read more

By: Allison Rowe, SPT (1) Overview My third clinical rotation over the summer of 2013 was my acute care rotation on a trauma floor.  I thoroughly enjoyed my time on this rotation, and left my experience amazed at how much … Read more

In selecting this capstone project, I wanted to choose a topic that I knew little about and that I could investigate both mentally and physically. I was inspired by my active, 91 year-old mother, who has regularly used her two … Read more

Osteoarthritis in the Intact Limb of Lower Extremity Amputees M. Taylor Reed 1  Overview At present, there are 1.7 million individuals in the United States living with an amputation.2 There are another 185,000 amputations that occur every year with more … Read more