News: Department of Physical Therapy

Merrill R. Landers demonstrates balance testing equipment
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51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ researcher making strides in brain research.

Woman sitting in chair reading an iPad
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Posture — not screen time — is biggest factor behind neck and shoulder pain, 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ study finds.

Maria Barton
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Maria Barton, the Allied Health Sciences Alumna of the Year, finds the payoff in helping others.

Holly Lyman
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Holly Lyman, the Community Health Sciences Alumna of the Year, builds a Dragon boating tradition to fight cancer.

Merrill Landers works with balance testing equipment
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Physical activity can help protect us from Parkinson’s, researcher Merrill Landers says.

Palm trees and U.N.L.V. banner
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Rodman was friend to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ for more than 30 years supporting academics and community programs.
Beatríz Alcala headshot
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Beatriz was a good student but college seemed impossible. Then 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ and the Millennium Scholarship came along.