The purpose of the CHPM is to provide precise measurement of human movement using the gold standard Qualisys motion analysis system. We also host additional and complimentary measurement techniques to include EEG and EMG.
Dr. Jeffries engages in and supports individual and interprofessional research and its knowledge translation of individuals who have developmental disabilities and students with disabilities who receive school-based physical therapy and related services.
My research focuses on motor control and learning in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). I am interested in understanding how people with MS adapt to perturbing forces during standing and reaching movements. Furthermore, I am interested in the relationship between long-term and short-term motor learning based on lesion location.
In the Health-Promoting Activity Lab (Health-PAL), we improve participation and reduce disability in adults and their care partners with chronic conditions through the use of health-promoting daily activity. Our projects deliver empowering and goal-oriented treatment to older adults with multiple chronic conditions and functional limitations and find innovative ways to integrate occupational therapy into existing healthcare systems.
Our goal is to develop and promote solutions for adults to engage in everyday activities and participate in life roles. With a focus on people with chronic medical conditions, we examine novel intervention, self-management training, environmental modification, assistive technology and/or caregiver training.
We partner with cancer survivors and their oncology treatment teams, to study best practices for side-effect screening, and innovative rehabilitative interventions to optimize physical function from the time of cancer diagnosis onward.
America's teachers are among our nation's most overworked and underappreciated groups. Specifically, early childhood education (ECE) teachers face disparities that influence their health and well-being. Teachers are integral to educational systems, and their wellness impacts the development of the children they teach. Moreover, physical and occupational therapists have leadership opportunities to, directly and indirectly, influence the wellness of students through their teachers.
The mission of the Lee Mitchener Tolbert Center (Lee Tolbert Center), at the University of Oklahoma Health Campus, is to promote evidence based services within natural life contexts for people with developmental disabilities and their families through excellence in discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
The purpose of the Professor Paws Project is to expand clinician knowledge and promote community awareness about service dogs through the utilization of a full-time facility dog at the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa (OU-Tulsa).
The development and validation of the School Outcomes Measure (SOM) is led by Sandra Arnold, PT, PhD and Thubi Kolobe, PT, Phd, FAPTA, both from the University of Oklahoma Health Campus Department of Rehabilitation Sciences.