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  • 35th Annual Gersten Day

    Jun 20, 2022
    The CU Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation celebrated it's 35th Annual Gersten Day Rehabilitation Scientific Symposium. Attendees heard presentations from our outgoing residents as fellows, as well as CU PM&R faculty members Drs. Noel So and Cory Christiansen, and our keynote speaker Colonel Benjamin Kyle Potter, MD, FACS.
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  • Dr. Lisa Brenner Featured on PTSD Bytes PodcastOpens in a new window

    Jun 7, 2022
    Learn how to know if you or someone you care about is in crisis. Dr. Lisa Brenner describes crisis resources that can help. Visit www.ptsd.va.gov for more information.
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  • Andrew Smith, PT, DPT, PhD named a Boettcher Investigators AwardeeOpens in a new window

    Jun 1, 2022
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  • 2022 Rehab at Red Rocks

    May 18, 2022
    CU PM&R gathered on May 14, 2022 for their annual Rehab at Red Rocks.
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  • Announcing Incoming Board DirectorOpens in a new window

    Feb 22, 2022
    The ABPMR is pleased to announce the addition of Susan Apkon, MD, to its board of directors. Dr. Apkon was elected to serve on the board at the ABPMR Winter Board Meeting in January. Dr. Apkon received her medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and completed residency at the University of Colorado. She holds board certification in PM&R and is sub-certified in pediatric rehabilitation medicine; she is also board certified with the American Board of Pediatrics.
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  • Concussion Treatment Is Suffering From the Nocebo EffectOpens in a new window

    Nov 2, 2021
    When it comes to concussion treatment, Dr. Michael Kirkwood, co-director of the Concussion Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado, tells a cautionary tale. One day, a 15-year-old boy suffered a concussion during a high school soccer game. After a day of rest, the young man returned to school; after a week, he seemed fully recovered. Then, 10 days following the injury, he started feeling tired and suffering headaches.
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  • CU School of Medicine Faculty Member is Headed to the 2022 Paralympics

    Dec 13, 2021
    Pam Wilson, MD, was your typical recreational athlete before the 1978 car accident that left her partially paralyzed and using a wheelchair for mobility, but after the accident, sports became a vital part of her recovery — a way to strive, compete, improve, and measure her progress as she went through physical therapy and rehabilitation.
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  • USA Curling Wheelchair National Team Qualifies for 2022 Paralympic Games in BeijingOpens in a new window

    Nov 1, 2021
    The road to 2022 is demanding, but for the Wheelchair National Curling Team (Matthew Thums, Steven Emt, David Samsa, Oyuna Uranchimeg, and Pam Wilson), it was not guaranteed as the American squad needed to first qualify for the World Wheelchair Curling Championship through the World-B Wheelchair Curling Championship to earn Paralympic Qualification Points.
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  • CU PT faculty represents excellence in education at the Education Leadership Conference

    Nov 1, 2021
    As the American Physical Therapy Association celebrates its centennial, faculty from the physical therapy program demonstrated educational excellence and innovation through providing seven educational sessions and professional presentations at the Education Leadership Conference late October in Atlanta, GA.
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  • A novel method for improving bone conduction auditory brainstem response measures in infants

    Nov 1, 2021
    Over twenty years ago, in the United States, Universal Newborn Hearing Screenings began, which has led to improved habilitation of infants and young children with hearing differences. These improvements have led to most children with hearing loss entering school with language within two standard deviations of their normal-hearing peers.
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  • A campus collaboration to improve knowledge translation and implementation of evidence-based practices for rural rehabilitation providers

    Oct 11, 2021
    Instructional designers Michael Lampe and Lisha Bustos from the instructional design service center at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have paired with Dr. Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley and her team in the RESTORE lab to develop innovative approaches to workforce development, knowledge translation, and implementation of evidence-based rehabilitation practices targeting rural rehabilitation providers of patients with complex care needs.
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  • Worried about falling? Here are 5 tips to avoid dangerous tumbles, other injuries.Opens in a new window

    Jul 26, 2021
    Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, PT, PhD, was interviewed for Consumer Report and featured in the Washington Post. Jennifer, takes readers through some fall-prevention strategies and why COVID-induced isolation has made such strategies more important than ever.
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  • Suicide Prevention Collaborative Wins National Award for Building Suicide Prevention Programs to Assist Veterans and Their Families

    Aug 18, 2021
    The VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry – Suicide Prevention Collaborative (PSCI-SPC) was presented last week with the VHA 2021 National Community Partnerships Challenge Award on August 19th by Dr. Steven Lieberman, Acting Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health.
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  • Rehabilitation Science PhD students receive foundation scholarships for their professional development and research

    Aug 24, 2021
    Two students, Michelle Rauzi, PT, DPT, ATC and Lauren Hinrichs, PT, DPT, OCS, both Rehabilitation Science PhD students under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley received Promotion of Doctoral Studies I (PODS) scholarships from the Foundation of Physical Therapy Research.
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  • Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award

    Jun 18, 2021
    Congratulations to former CU Rehabilitation Sciences PhD student, Allison Gustavson who received the prestigious Dorothy Briggs Memorial Scientific Inquiry Award for exemplary work led by a student. The manuscript is published in the Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Journal (PTJ).
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  • New Telerehab Program Empowers Veterans at homeOpens in a new window

    Jun 16, 2021
    Chronic pain was something Army Veteran Magdalen Jean-Baptiste believed she’d experience for the rest of her life. That was until one day when a box arrived at her doorstep packed with an iPad, a Fitbit and more. She was now ready to start a 12-week session with the Medically Complex Telerehabilitation program (MCTelerehab) offered through VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS).
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  • AB Nexus Award

    May 20, 2021
    Drs. Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD and Andrew Q. Tan, PhD, were awarded an AB (CU Anschutz-Boulder) Nexus Research Collaboration Grant Award. Together they will team up on a project: “Spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts sensory and motor pathways, resulting in lifelong mobility impairments and loss of functional independence.” This study will characterize how breathing modest bouts of low oxygen (acute intermittent hypoxia; AIH) may enhance the excitability of spared pathways to the lower limb as well as augment motor adaptation in humans with SCI.”
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  • 34th Annual Gersten DayOpens in a new window

    May 19, 2021
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  • An update on efforts by VA to prevent veteran suicidesOpens in a new window

    May 14, 2021
    The prevention of veteran suicides has been an ongoing and high priority for the Veterans Affairs Department. Efforts go far beyond hotlines and other operational measures, and extend into research. Both research and operational support and have a locus at VA’s Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center in Aurora, Colorado. For an update, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the Center’s director, Dr. Lisa Brenner.
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  • Sharing Emerging Experiences Regarding Innovations in Telerehabilitation

    May 3, 2021
    Dr. Jennifer Stevens-Lapsley, Professor and Director of the Rehabilitation Science PhD Program, recently provided an educational session at the national LeaRRn conference titled Shaping the Future of Telerehabilitation through Research. Dr. Stevens-Lapsley provided the audience with a detailed overview of the RESTORE labs existing project Multicomponent Telerehabilitation for Medically Complex Older Veterans.
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