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The faculty focus on research which relates to the delivery of clinical health
services to physically active individuals including the pathoetiology,
prevention, assessment, and treatment of common athletic and orthopedic
injuries. Specific themes of research include: the mechanical and functional
instabilities of joints, the role of proprioception and neuromuscular control in
orthopedic pathology, the development of functional assessment protocols
for injured athletes, the control of pain and swelling after injury, athletic
training education, and sports injury epidemiology. 

Graduate students become actively involved with research projects under
the direction of faculty members. Collaborative arrangements exist with
faculty and clinicians in other areas of the University including the Penn

            Current Doctoral Students at the Nittany Lion Shrine

State Center for Sports Medicine, the Department of Orthopedics and
Rehabilitation, and the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Didactic
coursework in athletic training and sports medicine is complemented by
courses in biomechanics and locomotion studies, motor control, exercise
physiology, and statistics and research design. 

FACILITIES

The Athletic Training Research Laboratory was founded in 1999 and serves
as an area for data collection and analysis as well as graduate student
offices. Equipment includes an electromyography and electrogoniometry
system, a force plate, an isokinetic dynamometer, and other clinical
assessment tools. A physical exam and treatment area, a functional
testing area, and extensive computer equipment are also located in the lab.

The Athletic Training Education Laboratory serves as the location of
clinically based undergraduate athletic training courses and contains
educational resources such as physical examination and rehabilitation
equipment, anatomical models and computer simulation programs, and a
gross cadaver lab. Extensive physical examination and treatment areas
also complement this area and make it a frequent site of research activities.

Graduate students and faculty also have access to a wide variety of clinical
populations and research equipment in other areas of the University such as
the Penn State Center for Sports Medicine and the campus athletic training
facilities.