For more information
about Friendship
Retirement Community
click here:
http://friendship.us/
Radio
Ads
aired on
Q99.1 and K92,Roanoke, VA,
in January 2011 and
in October 2010. DPT Radio Ad
Celebrating PT
Month by giving back.
Faculty and students provided BP and Body Fat
Assessments at Radford University
in Waldron Hall, October 8, 2010. Press Release
Thank
you Medical Facilities of America
for establishing the Endowed Program
Chair Position with your support of
$500,000! For more information
regarding Medical Facilities of
America, Inc., please click here:
http://www.lifeworksrehab.com/.
The first students in the Doctorate
of Physical Therapy program will
begin their training in June 2011
The
Ariel
Performance Analysis System
was
Delivered June 2010! For more
information about this system,
please visit:
http://www.arielnet.com/start/apas/.
*****A
big thank you to Genesis Rehab
Services for their generous donation
utilized to purchase this mobile
motion analysis lab with surface emg.
******
RU DPT
Department
sponsors VPTA
Combined
Mountain and
Valley District
Meeting,
May 18,
2010,
in Waldron
College of
Health and Human
Services
Wil Kolb, Mountain District
Chair, Renee Huth, Valley District
Chair, Terri Ferrier, VPTA
President, Delegate Nutter,
Ron Masri, Valley District Director,
Greg Cornforth, Mountain
District Director
Posturograph
Adds
“Balance
and
Mobility”
to
Physical
Therapy
Program
The Physical Therapy
doctoral program in
Radford University’s has
installed one of the
most technologically
advanced rehabilitation
systems in the eastern
United States.
The NeuroCom® SMART
EquiTest® system,
described as
computerized dynamic
posturography, will be
used in teaching,
research, service and
will be available for
use by qualified medical
professionals and
students with applied
interests in balance and
mobility.
The system is a
dynamic force plate with
rotation and translation
capabilities to quantify
the vertical forces
exerted through the feet
to measure center of
gravity position and
postural control; a
dynamic visual surround
measures the patient’s
use of visual
information to maintain
balance.
“It provides
assessment and
retraining capabilities
with visual biofeedback
on either a stable or
unstable support surface
and in a stable or
dynamic visual
environment. The SMART
EquiTest system is ideal
for the comprehensive
balance program,”
according to the product
description from
NeuroCom International,
Inc. The RU system also
includes the optional
long static force plate,
which can provide
additional functional
assessment and
retraining capabilities.
“The dynamic
posturography system
will afford Radford
University many
opportunities for
scholarly research,
advanced instruction and
community service,” said
Waldron College Health
and Human Services Dean
Raymond Linville. “For
instance, I envision it
providing needed
information relative to
fall prevention among
the elderly, regaining
functional living skills
for neurologically
impaired patients,
assisting
post-concussion athletes
and advancing our
knowledge and
understanding of
neuromotor control.”
WSLS Health Team 10
visits RU's DPT Program
June 14, 2010 to see new
SMART Balance Master
equipment. RU Today edition:
06-24-10
http://rutoday.radford.edu/
Click here to see WSLS
televised video June 14, 2010:
SMART BALANCE MASTER
Radford
University has been
granted Candidate for
Accreditation status by
the Commission on
Accreditation in
Physical Therapy
Education of the
American Physical
Therapy Association
(1111 North Fairfax
Street, Alexandria, VA
22314; phone;
703-706-3245; e-mail:
accreditation@apta.org).
Candidacy is not an
accreditation status nor
does it assure eventual
accreditation. Candidate
for Accreditation is a
pre-accreditation status
of affiliation with the
Commission on
Accreditation in
Physical Therapy
Education that indicates
the program is
progressing toward
accreditation.
