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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.

Jun 1, 2022

May 18, 2022

CU PM&R gathered on May 14, 2022 for their annual Rehab at Red Rocks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

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.”

May 19, 2021

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.

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.

May 17, 2016

Even though learning to waltz had been a lifelong dream for Sarah Cauley, she cancelled just one day before her first lesson. She was unable to open her hand enough for someone to hold it, and was afraid no one would want to try. “The words ‘graceful’ and ‘cerebral palsy’ are two words that are not typically used in the same sentence,” explained Sarah, an individual with spastic cerebral palsy. Watch Sarah dance today and you would describe her as graceful. Not only has Sarah become a competitive ballroom dancer, she is helping CU Anschutz researchers explore how cerebral palsy impacts health and mobility in adults.