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RESEARCH PROJECTS: MOTOR CONTROL & BIOMECHANICS
Exploring Balance and mobility rehabilitation in those with arthritis, joint surgery, back pain, stroke, Parkinson's Disease.
Examining the effect of specially designed Tai CHi exercise programs to REDUCE SPORTS INJURIES and IMPROVE SPORTS PERFORMANCE.
RESEARCH BIO
I hold a PhD from the University of Oregon in Human Physiology, specializing in Motor Control (the neuroscience of movement) and Biomechanics. I specialized in the use of Classic Tai Chi Principles in rehabilitating balance and movement disfunction. I am interested in how movement can influence cognition. My study was the first to explain HOW Tai Chi WORKS to improve balance in impaired older adults with surgical interventions to their backs, hips, knees, and arthritis while recovering from a large fast slip while walking.
The study found significant changes after only 3 weeks in neuromuscular, biomechanical, and clinical measures of balance control. The studies are scheduled to be published in peer reviewed scientific journals in late 2005 and early 2006. Please email for details. We used a specially designed intervention developed by the author during 10 years working with over 4000 older adults.
CNS
MOTOR CONTROL
THERAPY
MERIDIANS
JOINT MOBILITY (BELOW WAIST, ABOVE
WAIST)
BIOMECHANICS
PSYCHOLOGY
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"ADEPTS regard words of the mouth, functions of the body, conceptions of the mind, and aspirations of the soul as possessing analogies from which a complete system can be constructed. Therefore, each manifested being is a material basis of a long vista of
immaterial entities functioning as Spirit, Soul, and Mind in the Formative, Creative, and Archtypal World. Mind is the Plane of Expression. We must strive for WISDOM to contrive to perceive the truth and construct knowledge creatively, STRENGTH to suppor
t and preserve, and BEAUTY to adorn."
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