News: Physical Therapy
UCF Physical Therapy Educates ROTC Cadets on Injury Prevention
Clinical Assistant Professor Randi Richardson and second year DPT student Andrew Perez recently presented to a group of ROTC Army cadets to educate them on ways to reduce their risk...
Go Baby Go Hosts Interactive Field Trip for Middle School Students
A group of seventh-grade students from St. Mary Magdalen School in Altamonte Springs visited the UCF Go Baby Go lab in the CHPS Innovation Center on March 25. The students...
Incoming UCF Physical Therapy Student Awarded Doctoral Diversity Fellowship
Veoletta Dyer, an incoming physical therapy doctoral student, has been awarded the Doctoral Diversity Fellowship by UCF’s College of Graduate Studies. The fellowship is awarded to a student to increase...
UCF Go Baby Go Helps Central Connecticut University with Its First Car Build Event
Volunteers from a new Go Baby Go chapter at Central Connecticut University learned how to build cars for children with physical disabilities thanks to volunteers from the UCF chapter of...
Pabian Named As Fellow to National Academies of Practice in Physical Therapy
Physical therapy Professor Patrick Pabian was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in physical therapy. This interprofessional organization involving healthcare practitioners and scholars is dedicated...
Residency Faculty Marla Laloo Receives Community Grant from Orlando Health
Marla Laloo, PT, DPT, NCS, UCF & Orlando Health’s Neurologic Residency clinical faculty and UCF DPT alumni, is part of the rehabilitation team that received a Community Rehabilitation Services Grant...
IEPRS Conference Brings Together Experts and Learners to Explore Synergies in Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation
The Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science conference brought together kinesiology, physical therapy, and athletic training researchers, clinicians, and students who aspire to enter the field during the on-campus...
Go Baby Go! UCF chapter partners with elementary robotics club to help immobilized kids
UCF’s chapter of Go Baby Go! visited Sabal Point Elementary School on Jan. 21. The UCF community-based outreach program spent the day with Sabal Point’s Robotics Club to build a...
Physical Therapy Students Host Diversity Panel Discussion
The Division of Physical Therapy hosted a virtual panel discussion on Feb. 23 about the importance of diversity within the field of physical therapy, in honor of Black History Month. ...
Interprofessional Faculty Earn $1.5 Million Grant To Build Healthcare Provider Resiliency
As COVID-19 challenges the resilience of healthcare providers worldwide, an interprofessional team of UCF health faculty recently received a $1.5 million federal grant to help improve that resiliency. Support for...
