News: Physical Therapy

New UCF-Created Program Gets Seniors, Kids Exercising Together

Written By: Rachel Williams | July 13, 2017
A new program that gets seniors and children exercising together is happening in the community thanks to two physical-therapy faculty members at the University of Central Florida. Grow and Play...

The lab publishes aging work in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

Written By: Matt Stock | June 19, 2017
Dr. Stock was co-author on a recent manuscript published in the journal Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.

UCF, Orlando Health Team up to Help Children Vroom Vroom

Written By: Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala | June 16, 2017
The University of Central Florida and Orlando Health are teaming up today to give some children with limited mobility a little bit of independence. Orlando Health is sponsoring a UCF Go...

How One Cafe Is Giving Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors A New Sense Of Purpose

Written By: Nancy Devault | June 5, 2017
February of last year, the faculty at one Orlando college set out to prove how a real-world curricula could improve the lives of young survivors with traumatic brain injury (TBI)....

Dr. Stock gives presentation at ACSM in Denver, CO

Written By: Matt Stock | May 30, 2017
The 5th Symposium on Motor Control in Biomechanics was held on Tuesday May 30, 2017 during the pre-conference workshops of the 64th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports...

Hypertrophy Research Featured in News Article

Written By: Matt Stock | May 5, 2017
Dr. Stock’s recent research about muscle growth was featured in “Muscle gains can be seen after a few weeks of hard workouts: study” in The Globe and Mail, a Canadian...

Dr. Stock presents at Experimental Biology!

Written By: Matt Stock | April 26, 2017
Dr. Stock presented research at the Experimental Biology annual meeting. A co-author on his abstract was Jacob Mota, a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The title...

Students present at the UCF SURE!

Written By: Matt Stock | April 6, 2017
On Thursday, April 6, 2017, Adam Burton and David Phan presented research at the UCF Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence. Adam’s abstract was titled “The role of testing specificity in...

DPT Students Participate in Interprofessional Health Summit

Written By: Naseem Miller, Orlando Sentinel | March 30, 2017
About 60 students from UF College of Pharmacy, UCF College of Medicine, College of Nursing and the Physical Therapy Program gathered on Saturday for the fourth annual Teamwork Makes the...

Physical Therapy Students Learn EMG

Written By: Matt Stock | March 28, 2017
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, UCF 3rd year DPT students enrolled in PHT 7764C Advanced Neurologic Treatment participated in a surface EMG workshop at the Applied Physiology Lab. Students had...

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