Bike Fit and Knee Pain in Road Cyclists By Morven Ross, SPT Overview While cycling is generally considered a low-impact and relatively safe physical activity there is a high risk of overuse injuries. 85% of cyclists report one or more … Read more

My DPT Capstone project involved the creation of a website to provide information on formal balance testing, home exercise programs, and some “how-to” videos for patients who are in the acute phase, or pre-prosthetic phase, after a lower-limb amputation. The … Read more

Prevention of Shoulder Pain and Overuse Injuries in Manual Wheelchair Users By Austin Leedy, SPT 1 Overview In the United States, there are approximately 1.5 million manual wheelchair users and 70% of this population report experiencing shoulder pain making it … 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

Do Knee Braces Prevent Knee Injury in College and High School Football Players? Daniel Blackmon PHYT 754 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill I chose this topic to be my capstone project due to my own experience with a knee injury while … Read more

by Leigh Rolandelli Brogdon Introduction My history in athletics has been influential in my physical therapy areas of interest. During my 8 years that I played competitive basketball and soccer, I was fortunate to only suffer from relatively minor injuries—a … Read more

Evaluation and Treatment of Shoulder Impingement in Overhead Athletes Susie Williams Overview Throwing athletes need full, unrestricted arm function to perform optimally in their sport1. The throwing shoulder in baseball players demands considerable attention in the orthopedic and sports medicine … Read more

Hip and Low Back Pain in a Patient Presenting with Limb Length Inequality and Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction: A Case Study Regional Interdependence is a concept within the musculoskeletal physical therapy evaluation that lacks emphasis. This term refers to the concept … Read more

Scapular Taping for Subacromial Impingement in Overhead Athletes By Matthew Medlin Overview When I pitched for the Atlanta Braves (see above) I definitely struggled with subacomial impingement. In fact, subacromial impingement is the most common form of shoulder pathology in … Read more

Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Part 1 – Surgical Considerations, Grafts, & Healing Angela Lauten, SPT Introduction Well hello there folks and welcome to my Capstone website!  My interest in the ACL has sort of a one-thing-led-to-another kind of story.  I … Read more