Northwestern PT Research Targets Stroke, Injuries with Novel Therapies
From: Northwestern E-News - Volume 4, Number 5 - January 16, 2003
http://www.northwestern.edu/news/

The physical therapy department at the Feinberg School of Medicine is helping
to change the face of the discipline. Using cutting edge technology,
researchers are learning how to prevent injuries and develop more targeted
therapies. Mark Rogers, associate professor of physical therapy, studies
falls. Attaching a harness and electrodes to subjects, he uses an apparatus
to knock them down. Subjects are caught before they are hurt, but Rogers
details the mechanics of each fall on a computer. From this, physical
therapists will be able to design fall prevention therapies for patients.
Timothy Hain, associate professor of physical therapy, looks at whiplash. He
places subjects in a tracked sled and sends them hurling forward. The force
is not enough to hurt anyone, but enough to study the mechanics of the
injury, which are modeled digitally. They will be used to design better
recovery therapies. 

For more information, go to http://www.nupt.northwestern.edu/research.html

