The School receives a 5-year NIH training grant that supports PhD students who study Prosthetics & Orthotics (August 2008).
The School welcomes Lewis Wheaton, PhD, Assistant Professor in Cognitive Motor Control (August 2008). Dr. Wheaton comes to Georgia Tech from Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied higher order motor control in the upper and lower extremities at Baltimore VA medical center. (August 2008)
The School congratulates adjunct faculty member, John Michael, MEd, CPO, LPO, FISPO, FAAOP, who served as editor for the recently released fourth edition of the AAOS Atlas of Orthoses and Assistive Devices. The textbook is considered an essential information resource for practitioners in the management of persons who require an orthosis as part of a treatment plan. (August 2008)
Kristin Carnahan (MSPO class of 2008) published the fourth and final article in a series that chronicled her experiences as a student in the MSPO program. Read the on line article in the July issue of the O&P Edge. (July 2008)
The faculty and staff of the School of Applied Physiology and the MSPO program are pleased to welcome Dr. Geza Kogler, PhD, CO as its newest full time faculty member. Dr. Kogler comes to Georgia Tech from Springfield, Illinois where he practiced as an orthotist and bioengineer research investigator at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and other clinical practice settings. (July 2008)
Richard Welling, MSPO, CO (MSPO 2005) served as a camp supervisor and was featured along with others in the Adventure Amputee Camp in North Carolina. Click here to see the video (when on the video page, click on the right link to “Ryan’s story”). (July 2008)
Mindy Millard-Stafford, PhD, President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), hosted a press conference where legislation was introduced into the House and Senate, entitled Physical Activity for Americans Act which authorizes Congress to release Federal Guidelines for Physical Activity on a regular cycle (at least every 5 years).
Robert J. Gregor, PhD, retired after his 14 year tenure at Georgia Tech. Dr. Gregor will maintain his involvement with the School as Professor Emeritus (June 2008).
Mindy Millard-Stafford, PhD, becomes the President of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the largest academic society in this field (June 2008).
Grants and Awards
Congratulations on the following grants and awards:
Young-Hui Chang, Ph.D., received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. The CAREER Award is viewed as NSF's "most prestigious award for junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar." Dr. Chang's award of $530,000 will support his basic research and educational outreach efforts over the next five years. This NSF funded project "Dynamic control of immediate locomotor compensations in the leg" will address fundamental questions about limb control and compensatory strategies during human locomotion and will help integrate basic science and clinical education within the rapidly growing field of prosthetics and orthotics.
Mary Beth Brown, Doctoral Student in Applied Physiology was awarded the Gisolfi Research Grant from the American College of Sports Medicine and was recognized in Seattle at the Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine May 2009. Her grant was entitled Mechanisms and Implications of Variability in Human Eccrine Sweat Sodium.
Minoru Shinohara is selected as an awardee of the 2009 ACSM Visiting Scholar Award to visit the laboratory of Mathias Fink (Paris, France) for studying mechanical activity of contracting human muscle with ultrafast ultrasound technology.
Arick Auyang, a 4th year Applied Physiology student from the Comparative Neuromechanics Lab, won the "Best Podium Presentation" award for his talk "Effects of increased task difficulty on performance variable stabilization during locomotion" at the 2009 Southeast American Society of Biomechanics Conference held at the Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, April 23-25, 2009.
Minoru Shinohara, 2008-2009, GT Health Systems Institute Research Seed Grant, "Extracting Impaired Modulation of Muscle Activation Pattern in Neurological Patients Using Pinpointed Muscle Control Robot".
Mary Beth Brown, a Ph.D. Student from the Exercise Physiology Lab, and Andy Allison, MSPO class of 2007, were awarded the Thranhardt lecture award for their presentation "Physiological Responses of Amputees during Treadmill Exercise in Running-Specific Prostheses Compared to Traditional Prostheses and to Matched Non-Amputee Runners" at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, Atlanta, GA, March 2009.
Robert Gregor, 2008-2013, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, “Training Movement Scientists: Focus on Prosthesis and Orthotics”.
Edward M. Balog, 2008-2011, American Heart Association, Scientist Development Award, “S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Regulation of Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channels”.
Ashley Johnson (Shinohara Lab), 2008-2011, FACES Fellowship, Georgia Tech, “Correlation between Brain and Muscle Activity”.
Robert Kistenberg, 2008-2010, Office of Naval Research, “Medical Imaging Generated Dynamic Prosthetics Sockets”.
Minoru Shinohara, 2008-2009, GT/Emory BME-Neurology Seed Grant, "Predicting Individual's Optimal Noise for Posture Improvement in Balance-Impaired Individuals".
Young-Hui Chang, 2007-2008, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, “Interjoint Coordination and Compensation in Rat Locomotion Using X-ray Kinematics”.
Minoru Shinohara, 2006-2009, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, "Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Fine Motor Skills".
Edward Balog, 2005-2006, National Institute on Aging “Sr Calcium Release Channel Regulation in Aging Muscle”.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Below are the recent peer-reviewed publications in which members of our School were involved.
Shinohara M. Muscle activation strategies in multiple muscle systems. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 41:181-183, 2009.
Shinohara M, Yoshitake Y, Kouzaki M. Alterations in synergistic muscle activation impact fluctuations in net force. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 41:191-197, 2009.
Forrester LW, Wheaton LA, Luft AR. Exercise-mediated locomotor recovery and lower-limb neuroplasticity after stroke. J Rehabil Res Dev. 45:205-2020, 2008.
Bunderson NE, Burkholder TJ, Ting LH. Reduction of neuromuscular redundancy for postural force generation using an intrinsic stability criterion. Journal of Biomechanics 41:1537-1544, 2008.
Wheaton LA, Bohlhalter S, Nolte G., Shibasaki H, Hattori N, Fridman E, Vorbach, S, Grafman J, Hallett M. Cortico-cortical networks in patients with ideomotor apraxia as revealed by EEG coherence analysis. Neurosci Lett; 433: 87-92, 2008.
Hass CJ, Waddell DE, Wolf SL, Juncos JL, Gregor RJ. Gait initiation in older adults with postural instability. Clin Biomech 23:743-753, 2008.
Millard-Stafford M, Childers WL, Conger SA, Kampfer AJ, Rahnert JA. Recovery nutrition: timing and composition after endurance exercise. Curr Sports Med Rep. 7:193-201, 2008.
Wheaton LA, Carpenter M., Mizelle JC, Forrester L. Preparatory band specific premotor cortical activity differentiates upper and lower extremity movement. Exp Brain Res 184: 121-126, 2008.
Kampfer AJ, Balog EM. S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine Activates the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 371:606-609, 2008.
Chang Y-H, Roiz RA, Auyang A. Intralimb compensation strategy depends on the nature of joint perturbation in human hopping. J. Biomechanics 41: 1832-1839, 2008.
Harris F, Sprigle S. Outcome measurement of a wheelchair intervention; Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 3:1-10, 2008.
Yoshitake Y, Masani K, Shinohara M. Laser-detected lateral muscle displacement is correlated with force fluctuations during voluntary contractions in humans. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 173:271-278, 2008.
Sonenblum SE, Sprigle S, Harris FH, Maurer CL. Characterization of power wheelchair use in the home and community. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89: 486-491, 2008.
Heise G, Shinohara M, Binks L. Biarticular leg muscles and links to running economy. International Journal of Sports Medicine 29: 688-691, 2008.
Buxbaum LJ, Haaland KY, Hallett M, Wheaton L, Heilman KM, Rodriguez A, Gonzales-Rothi L. Treatment of limb apraxia: moving forward to improved action. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 87: 149-161, 2008.
Shinohara M, Keenan KG, Enoka RM. Fluctuations in motor output of a hand muscle can be altered by the mechanical properties of the position sensor. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 168: 164-173, 2008.