Posture and Mobility

Our Policy and Mobility is closely aligned with many of the research agendas in the Department of Physical Therapy, but also crosses other ENHP disciplines and throughout the University, such as engineering, nursing, and education.

One energizing aspect of the initiative is that research is being done in collaboration with numerous partners in hospitals, clinics, humanitarian groups, and other research institutions outside the University. ENHP students are involved in every project.

Barbara Crane, Adam Goodworth, and Sandra Saavedra are three of the many faculty members actively working on this initiative.

• Crane’s research seeks to quantify sitting posture for people who use wheelchairs and prevent pressure ulcers and improve technology for wheelchair users.Improving the Health, Care, and Well-being for People who use Wheelchairs
• Adam Goodworth's endeavors to understanding mechanisms of balance control. Improving Health, Care, and Well-being by Understanding Mechanisms of Balance Control
• Sandra Saavedra directs the Pediatric Balance Laboratory in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. She studies how segmental levels of trunk control influence and interact with sensorimotor function (e.g. eye-head-hand coordination, reaching, sitting, standing and walking) during typical and atypical development.