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  4. 2021 Research & Scholarship Showcase

Welcome to the 2021 Research & Scholarship Showcase!

The RSS is a public forum for the presentation of various scholarly endeavors undertaken by FranU faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Traditionally, this events occurs once a year, every April. Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have gone digital! See the video below to view the hard work that our FranU family has worked on over the past year.

2021 Winners

Best Student Poster:

Danielle Childers | Utilizing Gut Microbes to Promote Lung Tissue Repair for COVID-19 Patients


Best Student Platform:

Courtney David | Whole-body Vibration for Rehabilitation in Women's Health Populations: A Scoping Review


Best Faculty Presentation:

Phil Page | Technological Advances in Movement Analysis


Runner Up for Best Faculty Presentation:

Jeffery Thompson, Phillip Page, Troy Hooper, Stephane Sobczak, Kathleen Rosendahl-Garcia, Dwayne Anderson | Reliability of Cervical Disc Height Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

A Welcome Message from Dr. Tina Holland

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Student Showcase

Lauren West | The Post-Pandemic Healthcare System: A Leadership Perspective

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

William Foret | The Effects of Balance Exercise on Anxiety and Depression Levels in Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Literature Review

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Alyssa Simoneaux | Parents of Children on the Autism Spectrum: Exploring Coping Mechanisms

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Michelle Topham, Emily Whittington, Jordan Bailey, Tracy Lepper | Towards a Data-Based Approach to ABA Program Development

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Danielle Childers | Utilizing Gut Microbes to Promote Lung Tissue Repair for COVID-19 Patients

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Macy Miller | A Survey of Physical Therapists' Meausring Intensity of Exercise fo Neurologically-Diagnosed Patients

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Courtney David | Whole-body Vibration for Rehabilitation in Women's Health Populations: A Scoping Review

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Jennifer Nguyen | A Pilot Study to Determine the Effect of Acute Balance Warm Up on Club Head Speed in Recreational Golfers

PRESENTATION

Carlisa Watkins | Identifying Mental health resources for Frontline Healthcare Workers Serving on COVID-19

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Blanchard Sanchez | Looking at the Source: Investigating the causes of Stress and Academic Burnout in Physical Therapy Students

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Jake Conly | The Effect of Lateral Resistance Applied using the Theraband® VECTOR on Hip Muscle Activation During a Squat: A Pilot EMG Analysis

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Lexie Vass | At What Concentration is Cocaethylene (CE), a Metabolie of Cocaine, Formed in Liver Cells

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Arielle Grider | A Scoping Review on the Effects of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on UE Function in Pediatric Hemiparesis

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION| POSTER

Allison Faircloth | Does Virtual Reality Improve Balance and Postural Control in Patients with Peripheral Vestibular Dysfunction

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Kullen Mancil | Quantifying Movement (kinematice and Electromyographic) Variables of the Upper Extremity using and Imersive Virtual Reality Application

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Rebecca Fails, Kheri LaDay | Difference While Navigating Stairs Between Roami Walker and Traditional Walkers in Geriatric Population

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Chris Graham | The Relationship Between Elbow Pain and Scapular Msucle Stabilizer Strength in Overhead Athletes

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Sarah Surber Bounds | The Design of a randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate a Pragmatic and Scalable eHealth Intervention for the Management of the Gestational Weight gain in Low-Income Women: Protocol for Smart Moms in WIC Trial

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Ciani Walker | Servant Leadership: A Systematic Review of Graduate Level Health Administration Programs Across Seventeen United States Southern States

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Faculty Showcase

Susan Steele-Moses | Impacting the Work Climate in Healthcare, Does Embeddedness Matter?

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION | POSTER

Michael Dreznick | Nontraditional Students Perceptions of their University Experience

PRESENTATION

Jeffery Thompson, Phillip Page, Troy Hooper, Stephane Sobczak, Kathleen Rosendahl-Garcia, Dwayne Anderson | Reliability of Cervical Disc Height Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

ABSTRACT | PRESENTATION

Cathy Denison-Robert | Business and Workforce Disaster Recovery: Dealing with Double Hurricanes and COVID-19

ABTRACT | PRESENTATION

Phil Page | Technological Advances in Movement Analysis

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Phil Page | Beyond Levels of Evidence: Critical Appraisal for Research Quality

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Phil Page | Clinical Inference From research Statistics

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Paul Britt, Albert Swafford |The Probability of Odd Integers Being Coprime

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Kelly Rodriguez |Neurological Physical Therapy Best Practice: Investigation and Implementation

PRESENTATION

Roundtable Discussion on Research

Roundtable Discussion

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