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  Motor Learning And Adaptation In People With Knee Osteoarthritis And Chronic Pain

  Heather Turcotte and Katherine S. Rudolph

  
  

  Osteoarthritis (OA) affects an estimated 50 million people in the US, and approximately 43% have limitations in daily function due to arthritis pain.3 Individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA) have heightened sensitization to pain2,5 as well as reduced strength, diminished function and quality of life1 that prompts them to seek care from health care providers. Physical therapists commonly work with patients to improve function and quality of life by helping... Read More

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  Differential Effects Of Cardiovascular And Resistance Exercise On Functional Mobility In Individuals With Advanced Cancer: A Randomized Trial

  Amy J. Litterini, Vickie Fieler, James T. Cavanaugh, and Jeannette Lee

  
  

  Objective: To compare the effects of resistance and cardiovascular exercise on functional mobility in individuals with advanced cancer.
  Design: Prospective, 2-group pretest-posttest pilot study with randomization to either resistance or cardiovascular exercise mode.
  Setting: Comprehensive community cancer center and a hospital-based fitness facility.
  Demographics: Volunteer sample of individuals with advanced cancer recruited through the cancer center, palliative care service, rehabilitation department, and a local hospice.
  Outcome Measures: Functional mobility... Read More

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  The Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity And Motor Adaptations

  Irina Fedulow and Katherine S. Rudolph

  
  

  The perception of pain in patient populations can arise from tissue damage but when pain persists past the point of tissue healing it is thought to relate to abnormal pain processing in the CNS such as persistent central sensitization. Studies have shown that persistent central sensitization occurs in about 1/3 of people with chronic pain from knee OA and this abnormal pain processing can affect motor output and motor... Read More

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  Telecommuting as the Director of Clinical Education (DCE) in a Doctoral Physical Therapy Program

  Sally McCormack Tutt

  
  

  Poster describing a case study created to help determine the feasibility of allowing the Director of Clinical Education to telecommute from Florida to Maine as a unique way to retain a valued core faculty member of the DPT department. Concludes there are benefits to departments considering this method of job performance, including: decreasing the turnover of quality faculty at an institution, reducing stress of a vacancy on the department... Read More

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  Changes in Evidence-based Practice Skills of First-Year DPT Students

  Michael Fillyaw, Elizabeth Dyer, and Sally McCormack Tutt

  
  

  Poster presentation describing the outcomes for 30 first-year DPT students instructed in the elements of Evidence-Based Practice in a 2 credit course - Scientific Inquiry 1 (SI1). Faculty evaluated changes in: (1) DPT students’ knowledge and skills of EBP, as measured by the Adapted Fresno Test of Competence in Evidence-Based Practice (AFT) and (2) students’ self-confidence in EBP skills. This is the first study to use the AFT to... Read More

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  Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Teaching Evidence-Based Practice

  Michael Fillyaw and Elizabeth Dyer

  
  

  Poster presentation describing the collaboration of physical therapy faculty and university librarian in teaching elements of evidence-based practice in Scientific Inquiry 1 in the DPT curriculum. These elements included: Writing a patient-centered clinical question P: Patient/Problem/Population I: Intervention C: Comparison O: Outcome; Developing an effective search strategy; Searching electronic databases for articles. Although the literature contains examples of faculty-librarian collaboration in other disciplines, reports about the collaboration in physical... Read More