IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH ACTIVITY & SPORT

From how movement and function impact our individual health to how physical activity and sport can benefit our communities, research at the School of Kinesiology is addressing a wide range of complex issues that affect us all throughout our lives.

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Research Areas

Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation

Movement for Health & Well-Being

A movement science student shows a young woman on a rowing machine her smart phone

Childhood Physical Activity & Development

Dr. Leah Robinson (center) with students and kids at the Towsley Children's House

Community Impact

The Business of Sport

University-Wide Initiatives

Dr. Broglio (left) and student in the Michigan Concussion Center

Labs & Centers

Environment & Policy Laboratory

Helping communities become more active

An MiPR research participant running on a treadmill

Michigan Performance Research Laboratory

Optimizing human movement potential

Dr. Palmieri-Smith (left) and students in the Orthopaedic Rehabilitation & Biomechanics Lab

Orthopedic Rehabilitation & Biomechanics Laboratory

Rehabilitating traumatic knee injury and preventing knee osteoarthritis

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Faculty Interests

Erin Giles, PhD

Lab:

Exercise Oncology Lab

Mechanisms underlying the link between obesity, adipose inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and breast cancer risk and progression.

Steven Broglio, PhD, ATC

Lab:

Michigan Concussion Center, NeuroTrauma Research Laboratory

Sports medicine: mild traumatic brain injury prevention, biomechanics, assessment, and treatment, postural control.

RBL students observe a participant testing a prosthetic hand

Deanna Gates, PhD

Lab:

Rehabilitation Biomechanics Laboratory

Biomechanics, rehabilitation, prosthetic and orthotics, control of repetitive movements, nonlinear dynamics.

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