Research Projects
Muscle and bone health are a part of everyone's lives, but the importance of these systems is often overlooked until there is an injury. While most people can easily understand the implications of athletic injuries, they rarely think about the impact of injury on police, fire, military and other first responders or older adults and clinical populations. Our research focuses on these unique populations.
Clinical Research and Healthy Aging
2024 - How to Build and Sustain a Transdisciplinary Community-based Exercise Program for Older Adults.
2023 - Older Adults’ Functional Health Using the Progressive Stay Strong, Stay Healthy Program.
2022 - Eight weeks of resistance training sparks previously sedentary older adults to adopt long-term positive exercise habits despite COVID-19 restrictions.
2021 - Tibial Bone Quality in Former Bariatric Surgery Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis.
2020 - Does Blood Flow Restriction Therapy in Patients Older Than Age 50 Result in Muscle Hypertrophy, Increased Strength, or Greater Physical Function? A Systematic Review.
Competitive and Tactical Athletes
2024 - Height Restrictions for Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry: What Are Our Options
for Body Composition and Bone Health Precision?
2023 - Non-Traditional HIIT-Style Training Elicits Positive Bone Quality and Performance
Adaptations.
2021 - Bone, biomarker, body composition, and performance responses to eight weeks of ROTC training.
2020 - Sex differences in bone density, geometry, and bone strength of competitive
soccer players.
Female Physiology
2023 - Oral Contraceptives and Female Rowers’ Skeletal Health.
2022 - Skeletal health and associated injury risk in collegiate female rowers.
2018 - Association between bone-specific physical activity scores and measures of
areal and volumetric bone mineral density in healthy young & premenopausal women.
2017 - Effect of whole-body vibration on jump performance in young women.
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