Faculty and Staff

Abigail Wilson, PT, DPT, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Physical Therapy at the University of Central Florida and Co-Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory. Wilson earned a PhD in Rehabilitation Science at the University of Florida and graduated with a Doctor of Physical Therapy from Mercer University. She has clinical experience in the outpatient orthopedic and acute care settings and is passionate about conducting innovative research. She also regards mentoring and teaching Doctor of Physical Therapy students as an important aspect of her role. Her research advances a mechanistic-based approach for pain management by, first, using quantitative sensory testing to examine underlying mechanisms of rehabilitation interventions and, second, applying novel treatment stratification approaches by underlying mechanism. It was her experience treating patients with musculoskeletal pain that inspired her to pursue research aimed at understanding the variability of pain and treatment mediators/moderators that account for individual responses to rehabilitation interventions. She is also interested in investigating the translation of her mechanistic work to the clinic through research examining clinical applications of quantitative sensory testing, such as pain phenotyping. Wilson has published and presented nationally on these topics and enjoys working alongside students in the laboratory and classroom.