Department Of Physical Therapy

Jay Nair and Jingnan Zhang received the center's Outstanding International Student Awards.

The therapy could offer older adults with chronic pain an effective alternative to other treatments, including prescription painkillers, say UF pain researchers.

The grant supports research led by Dr. Krista Vandenborne on the use of MRI to track Duchenne muscular dystrophy disease progression.

Dr. Steven Z. George has received the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2016 John H.P. Maley Lecture Award for contributions to physical therapy clinical practice.

Dr. Patten, an associate professor in the department of physical therapy, is one of 34 UF scientists recognized for a distinguished record of research.

Researchers led by Dr. Steven George have discovered that a combination of genetic and psychological factors play a role in which patients will have prolonged pain.

The donation will help Barbara Bour, a clinical lecturer in the department of physical therapy, purchase items she needs to help young patients with cancer.

PHHP researchers are working to give patients with muscular dystrophy longer, fuller lives.

Researchers and students gather at UF to discuss the latest rehabilitation research in neuromuscular plasticity.

In his column “On the Same Page,” Dr. David Guzick, UF’s senior vice president for health affairs, describes the success of recent grant applications by investigators in the department of physical therapy.