News: Physical Therapy
DPT Acquires Anatomage Table
The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program recently acquired an Anatomage Table for their Anatomy Lab. In addition to learning with cadavers, students now have access to realistic, life-sized, 3D body...
Babies! Start your engines! Winter Haven child gets the gift of mobility
A Winter Haven child received the gift of mobility earlier this summer when UCF physical therapy faculty members teamed up with community partners and GoBabyGo to soup up ride-on vehicles...
HuffPost What’s Working Honor Roll: An Ingenious Invention Is Getting Disabled People Back On Their Feet
Cole Galloway, a professor at the University of Delaware, has developed a harness that helps physically impaired patients move around a room on tracks affixed to the ceiling. The harness...
The Ingenious Way That Those with Traumatic Brain Injuries Are Getting Back on Their Feet
The news seemed like a death sentence: In 1998, Anne Dunlap, a pretty young woman in Delaware, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car crash, severely impairing her daily functioning. Even...
GoBabyGo: A Mobility Initiative
The UCF College of Health and Public Affairs brings a new idea to help children with mobility impairments socialize and interact.
UCF Provides Modified Kiddie Cars to Special Toddlers, Only the Beginning
Barnabas Dowdell was born with Down syndrome, and moving his lower body is a challenge. So his mom was astonished when the 13-month-old drove his new retrofitted motorized toy racecar...
Nearly 20 Students Present Research Posters This Week
Nearly 20 students from the Department of Health Professions presented research posters during UCF’s 2015 Research Week, held March 30 to April 2 on the Orlando campus. Twelve students from the Physical Therapy Program presented posters at the...
Gov. Scott Appoints Pabian to State’s Physical Therapy Board
Gov. Rick Scott has appointed UCF faculty member Patrick Pabian to the Florida Board of Physical Therapy for a three-year term. Pabian (right) is director of the Doctor of Physical Therapy...
Kids with Developmental Disabilities to Have Field Day All Their Own
Playing is a big part of being a kid. But for children with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other physical and developmental disabilities, it can be tough to find...
Make the World a Better Place, Join Us
Meet Cole Galloway, a medical researcher in the Pediatric Mobility Lab at the University of Delaware. Cole’s research involves designing technology which will help advance the mobility of kids with...
