Department of Physical Therapy Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dissertation: Neck Muscle Composition in Persistent Whiplash Associated Disorder: A Relationship with Disability, Bradford G. Callan
Dissertation: Neurophysiological Effects of Dry Needling to the Thoracolumbar Junction Multifidi in Subjects with Low Back Pain and Decreased Hamstring Length, Nicole Ginette Clark
Dissertation: Does the range of walking speeds produced by community-dwelling older adults relate to or predict function, disability, and community mobility?, Michelle Germaine Criss
Dissertation: Impact of Strength and Range of Motion on Loss of Ambulation and Functional Change Measures in Boys with DMD, Tina Duong
Dissertation: Does the Type of Dual Cognitive Task Impact Gait Variability Using the Quantitative Timed Up and Go (QTUG) in Community-Dwelling Adults?, Laurie G. Hiatt
Dissertation: Can A Prescribed Walking Program with or without Monitoring Impact Dizziness in the Older Adults? A Pilot Study, Amie Marie Jasper
Dissertation: Financial Impact Associated with Implementation of the Low Back Pain Clinical Practice Guideline in Outpatient Physical Therapist Practice, Heidi Kosakowski
Dissertation: Development and validation of the Self-Management Assessment for the Residuum and prosThesis (S.M.A.R.T.), Daniel Joseph Lee
Dissertation: Effects of Cueing on Sit to Stand Transfers in Parkinson Disease, Rebecca Ann Martin
Dissertation: Does One Session of Pre-Operative Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Aid in Improving Urinary Incontinence Immediately Following Robotic Assisted Radical Prostatectomy? A Retrospective and Pilot Study, Francine Noel-Ford
Dissertation: Comprehensive Physical Function Measure for the Intensive Care Unit: The use of Rasch Analysis and Item Response Theory, Michelle Lynn Peterson
Dissertation: Are Finger Width Palpation, Tape Measure, and Caliper Reliable, Valid, and Accurate to Diagnose Diastasis Recti Abdominis (DRA)?, Tamara L. Roehling
Dissertation: Impact of Physical Therapist Attitudes and Beliefs on the Outcomes of Patients with Low Back Pain, Adam P. Rufa
Dissertation: Impact of Psychological Factors on Adolescents with Anterior Knee Pain, Mitchell Selhorst
Dissertation: Correlation of Trust and Outcomes Following Physical Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain, Kory J. Zimney
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dissertation: Mental Health Disorders in DPT Students: Identifying Needs, Support Systems, & Challenges, Jennifer M. Bogardus
Dissertation: Caring for Children with Severe Cerebral Palsy: The Lived Experience of Parents, Jason Eric Cook
Dissertation: Cognitive Load Theory Principles Applied to Simulation Instructional Design for Novice Health Professional Learners, Susan M. Grieve
Dissertation: Lived Experience of Exemplary Physical Therapist Students in Clinical Education: A Phenonenological Study, Laura Hagan
Dissertation: Trigger Point Dry Needling, Manual Therapy and Exercise versus Manual Therapy and Exercise for the Management of Achilles Tendinopathy: A Feasibility Study, Alex Michael Koszalinski
Dissertation: Influence of Clinical Instructor and Physical Therapist Student Characteristics on the Use of Standardized Tests and Measures in Clinical Practice, Vicki LaFay
Dissertation: Effects of Generic Group-Based Versus Personalized Individual-Based Exercise Programs on Balance, Gait, and Functional Performance of Older Adults with Mild Balance Dysfunction and Living in Residential Care Facilities - A Randomized Controlled Trial, Varatharajan Lingam
Dissertation: Effectiveness of a Manual Therapy Approach in Treatment of Patients with Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Haitham Ramadan
Dissertation: Thrust Joint Manipulation to the Cervical Spine in Participants with a Primary Complaint of Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD): A Randomized Clinical Trial, Breanna C. Reynolds
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Dissertation: Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Imaging: How Physical Therapists Utilize Imaging in Clinical Decision-Making, Hilmir Agustsson
Dissertation: Influence of a post-graduate physical therapy residency program on clinical reasoning, professional development, and career advancement in Nairobi, Kenya, Shala Cunningham
Dissertation: Shoulder-Specific Patient Reported Outcome Measures for Use in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer:An Assessment of Reliability, Construct Validity, and Overall Appropriateness of Test Score Interpretation Using Rasch Analysis, Melissa Michelle Eden
Dissertation: Effect of Individual Height and Testing Methods on Outcome of the Forward Functional Reach Test, Jill Elaine Heitzman
Dissertation: Shoulder Symptom Irritability: Development and Testing of a New Construct, Stephen Michael Kareha
Dissertation: Physical Therapists’ Beliefs about Preparation to Work in Special Care Nurseries and Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Joyce Lammers
Dissertation: Predictors of shoulder injuries in female collegiate swimmers, Eric Lee Lippincott
Dissertation: Relationship Between Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging and the Modified Prone Straight Leg Raise Test to Identify Multifidus Weakness, Mitchell T. Maione
Dissertation: Use of a Telerehabilitation Delivery System for Fall Risk Screening, Robert W. Nithman
Dissertation: Impact of an Exercise Program on Stress, Fatigue, and Quality of Life for Individuals Living with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease, Kerri Sowers
Dissertation: Impact of an Exercise Program on Stress, Fatigue, and Quality of Life for Individuals Living with Primary Immunodeficiency Disease, Kerri Sowers
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Dissertation: Efficacy of Kinesio Taping as an Adjunct Intervention to Traditional Physical Therapy in the Treatment of Nonspecific Acute Low Back Pain: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial, Hossameldien Elkholy
Dissertation: Educational Program Attributes and Faculty Teaching Behaviors as Predictors of National Physical Therapy Examination Success, Natonya Frazier-Early
Dissertation: Risk Factors for Low Back Pain in Recreational Distance Runners, Jonathan Gallas
Dissertation: Immediate Effects of a Seated versus Supine Upper Thoracic Spine Thrust Manipulation Compared to Sham Manipulation in Individuals with Subacromial Pain Syndrome – A Randomized Clinical Trial, Jason Keith Grimes
Dissertation: Gait analysis following Total Knee Arthroplasty during Inpatient Rehabilitation: Can findings predict LOS, ambulation device, and discharge disposition?, Janet Anne Herbold
Dissertation: Effects of Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling versus Cycling Only on Walking Performance and Quality of Life in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis: A Randomized, Clinical Pilot Study, Lori Hochman
Dissertation: Dry Needling of Myofascial Trigger Points: Quantification of the Biomechanical Response Using a Myotonometer., Joseph P. Kelly
Dissertation: Cost of Physical Therapists Serving as a Musculoskeletal Providers Compared to Family Practice Providers in a Military Treatment Facility, Troy Edward McGill
Dissertation: Iliotibial Band Length and Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome: Relationship Between Two Measurement Techniques, Duane Michael Scotti
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Dissertation: Validation of a Pressure Pain Threshold Scale in Patients Diagnosed with Myofascial Pain Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, Scott William Cheatham
Dissertation: Effect of Stance Symmetry on Perturbation-Induced Protective Stepping in Persons Poststroke and Controls, Katherine M. Martinez
Dissertation: Sub-clinical Neck Symptoms, Disability, Posture, and Muscle Function in Computer Users, and the Effect of Education versus Education and Deep Cervical Flexor Exercise, Donna Lynne Skelly
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Dissertation: Achieving Competence: Clinical Instructors' Perspective, Kimberly W. Coleman-Ferreira
Dissertation: Humeral Retrotorsion in Developing Children and its Relationship to Throwing Sports, Elliot M. Greenberg
Thesis: Investigation of relationships between physical characteristics of recreational runners and lower extremity injuries, Steven Marc Jackson
Dissertation: Promoting professional behavior in physical therapist students : use of standardized patient feedback, Mary Anne Riopel
Dissertation: Most effective intervention for reducing posterior shoulder tightness acutely in the post-operative population : a single blinded randomized control trial, Paul A. Salamh
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Dissertation: Student and clinical instructor perceptions of credentialed and noncredentialed clinical instructors, Lindsay Elchert
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Use of a Direction Tolerance System (DTS) in Patients with Low Back Pain: Intra-Rater Reliability and Outcome, Martin Lambert
Dissertation: High fidelity human simulation used in preparation for physical therapy student acute care clinical practice experiences, Nicki Silberman
Dissertation: Pelvic girdle pain, postpartum depressive symptoms, and perceived improvement in the first twelve weeks after delivery, Adrienne H. Simonds
Dissertation: Physical therapy student experiences regarding problem-based learning and development of professional core values, Michelle E. Wormley
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Dissertation: Assessing student physical therapists' clinical reasoning competency, Wing Fu
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Effects of the Nintendo Wii Fit on Functional Gait, Balance and Quality of Life in Ambulatory Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, Tracy E. Wall
Dissertation: Lived experiences of physical therapists in inpatient rehabilitation facilities : an interpretive phenomenological analysis, Steve Wiley
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Dissertation: Relationship between proximal hip stabilizer force and incidence of recurrent ankle sprains with female soccer players ages thirteen to seventeen, Jane G. Keehan
Dissertation: Reliability and validity of a functional measure of change in canine lameness : the canine timed up and go test, Cindy June McGregor
Dissertation: Effective mentoring in physical therapy : approaches for residency training, Anne E. O'Donnell
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Reliable and Valid Means to Measure the Physical Abilities of Young Male Gymnasts, Mark D. Sleeper
Dissertation: Using fMRI to determine if hemodynamic responses to pain change following thoracic spine thrust manipulation, Cheryl L. Sparks
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Incidence and Impact of Urinary Incontinence and Health Related Quality of Life for Postpartum Bangladeshi Women: Comparison by Birth Mode, Lori Marie Walton
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Understanding Clinically Meaningful Change in Walking and Balance Ability for Patients Undergoing Inpatient Physical Therapy after Stroke, Jennifer Canbek
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Criterion-Related Validity of the mini-BESTest: A New Clinical Combination Test Battery for Dynamic Balance and an Instrumented Test of Postural Sway (iSWAY), Demetrius Lynn Freeman
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Expectations of Physical Therapist Employers, and Academic and Clinical Faculty Regarding Entry-level Knowledge, Skills, and Behavior of Physical Therapist Graduates in Acute Rehabilitation Practice, Claudia Capelle Gazsi
Dissertation: Development of a clinical prediction rule to identify patients with neck pain that may benefit from education and exercise, William J. Hanney
Dissertation: Understanding the meaning of social responsibility and cultural competence to physical therapists volunteering in an international setting : a mixed methods design, Alan Chong W. Lee
Dissertation: Examination of interpersonal skills in entry-level physical therapist students, Jennifer A. Mai
Dissertation: Short-term combined effects of thoracic spine thrust manipulation and cervical spine non-thrust manipulation in patients with mechanical neck pain : a randomized clinical trial, Michael Masaracchio
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development of a Clinical Prediction Rule to Identify Patients with Neck Pain likely to benefit from Cervical Spine Manipulation and a Range of Motion Exercise, Emilio J. Puentedura
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Vibrotactile Postural Control in Patients That Have Sit-to-Stand Balance Deficit and Fall, Karen L. Hastings Atkins
Dissertation: Home-based exercise program using self-management strategies for individuals with type 2 diabetes, Andrew S. Bartlett
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Study on the Effectiveness of Strain Counterstrain in the Treatment of Chronic Ankle Instability Resulting from a Lateral Ankle Sprain, Cristiana Kahl Collins
Dissertation: Partial versus full range of back extension endurance testing using the swiss ball in discogenic low back pain patients : a comparative study, Tarek El-Gohary
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Characteristics of the upper extremity in female recreational tennis players with and without lateral epicondylalgia, Ann M. Lucado
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Body Composition, Fitness Levels and Quality of Life in Overweight and Obese 8-17 Year Olds, Sharon Ann Martino
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Influence of exercise training frequency and predictors of clinical outcome associated with lumbar extensor strengthening exercises in adults with chronic low back pain, Lee C. Rielly
Dissertation: Prediction of functional outcome six months following total hip arthroplasty, Emily Joan Slaven
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation: Investigating the efficacy of weighting the subscales of the Braden scale for predicting pressure sore risk to enhance its predictive validity, Katherine S. Harris
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Relationship Between Physical Therapist Assistant Faculty Characterisitics and Program Outcomes on the National Physical Therapy Examination, Malorie Kosht Novak
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Effect of transverse abdominus muscle activation on a pelvic muscle exercise program in women with stress urinary incontinence, Linnette Clark
Dissertation: Physical activity and dietary behaviors as essential components of successful weight loss, maintenance of weight loss, and quality of life after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, Steven W. Forbush
Dissertation: Effectiveness of a static progressive stretch device as an intervention for adhesive capsulitis stage 3 and 4: a randomized controlled trial, Mahmoud Ibrahim Ibrahim
Dissertation: Clinical instruction in physical therapy: novice and expert approaches to instructional reasoning, Stephanie Piper Kelly
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Continuing Professional Development Module on Physical Therapists Use of Standardized Balance Measures: A Knowledge Translation Study, J.J. Mowder-Tinney
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Autonomic Dysfunction : a conceptual model, the effects of a physical therapeutic manipulation targeting the T3-T4 segment on the autonomic nervous system, Rob Sillevis
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Grounded theory investigation of the use of the physical therapist clinical performance instrument for self-assessment, Raelyn Jenrette Covington
Dissertation: Shoulder joint and muscle characteristics in the recreational weight training population, Morey J. Kolber
Dissertation: Exploration of cultural competency pedagogical strategies and assessment methods in entry-level physical therapist educational programs, Charlene D. Portee
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Dissertation: Ethnography of the postural restoration subculture : a posture based approach to patient / client management, Kyndall L. Boyle
Dissertation: Influence of mobility impairment on outcomes in elderly patients hospitalized for an acute ischemic stroke, Mary I. Dallas
Dissertation: Lower extremity dynamic alignment in female subjects with patellofemoral pain syndrome versus female controls, Ricardo A. Fernandez
Dissertation: Effects of monochromatic infrared energy on transcutaneous oxygen measurements in diabetic subjects with a loss of protective sensation, Holly Franzen-Korzendorfer
Dissertation: Retrospective study of the correlates of post rotator-cuff surgical outcomes, Meri T. Goehring
Dissertation: Quantifying medication use and environmental factors of community-dwelling elderly Guyanese at risk for falls : a cross-sectional study, Ronald G. Wharton
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: Using the OASIS to predict risk of falls in older adults, Jacqueline Crossen-Sills