News and Successes
4/5/24
Logan Spacek, DPT ’14 shared valuable information and demonstrated exercises for strengthening one’s pelvic floor on a WFAA’s Good Morning Texas segment on March 26.
Serendipitous path led to fulfilling career for PT associate director
3/20/24
For over 30 years, Mark Weber, PT, PhD, SCS Emeritus, ATC has worked as an academic, a board-certified sports physical therapist and an athletic trainer. Last February, Weber received the Turner A. Blackburn Hall of Fame/Lifetime Award at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Combined Sections meeting.
Student dreams of expanding PT in island community
3/13/24
Kalijah Belardo is from St. Croix, one of the three islands that make up the United States Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea. She is also a first-year student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program on the Texas Woman’s Houston campus. And, although she misses home and her close-knit family every single day, she is determined to become a physical therapist to inspire and help the people of St. Croix.
PT researchers studying treatments for post-stroke fatigue
10/23/23
Associate Professor Hui-Ting Goh and Professor Emeritus Elaine Jackson, both from the School of Physical Therapy at the Dallas Center, have been awarded a $372,870 three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund their project, "Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Post-Stroke Fatigue."
PhD student finds joy in practice, research, teaching and learning
1/25/23
If you’re the kind that wants to leave a lasting legacy, you might take a cue from Libby Bergman. The physical therapist and PHD student has a lot to share when it comes making lives better for individuals everywhere.