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(Post 1 of 3) Three abstracts, leveraging AI in the classroom, in the lab and in the clinic, have been accepted for presentation at APTA's Combined Sections Meeting in Anaheim, CA!  🎉🖼️ 🏆 

Title: Using Generative AI to Build a Kinesiology Tutor for DPT Students - a Pilot Study 

Authors: Smita Rao, Xavier Ochoa, Andrew Brackett

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(Post 2 of 3) Congratulations to Dr. Dr. Mark Vorensky, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, PhD for this Viewpoint published in JOSPT Methods, “Improving ChatGPT’s Performance in Orthopedics: Opportunities Using the CRISPE Framework”! Read it here 🎉🏆🙌🏽 

The results of the study were also accepted at CSM 2026! 

Title: Using the CRISPE Framework to Assess the Accuracy of ChatGPT’s Physical Therapy Neck Pain Recommendations

Authors: Daniel Peredo, Richard A Ferraro, Emily Paris, Patrick Spano, Asma Mohammadi, Smita Rao, Mark Vorensky 

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(Post 3 or 3) Three of my current PhD students will present their work at APTA's Combined Sections meeting in Anaheim, CA! Join  Pooja Mahaseth, Soniya Kadam and Dannyelle Long PT, DPT 🙌🏽 🏅💡

Title: Between-Session Reliability of Commercial Automated Markerless Motion Capture during Four Tasks

Authors: Pooja Mahaseth, Soniya Kadam, Dannyelle Long, Smita Rao

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Our PhD student Gaurav Seth is headed to the American Society of Biomechanics annual meeting in Pittsburgh, PA! He will be presenting “Exploring Nonlinear Muscle Networks During Yoga Postures and Functional Tasks”, a poster that investigates the reliability of nonlinear muscle network metrics across yoga and daily living tasks, winner of an ASB travel award. 🎉🖼️ 🏆 

Congratulations to Dr. Vaibhavi Rathod, PT, MPT, PhD on her recent publication titled, “Proximal and Distal Impairments in Runners With Achilles Tendinopathy Compared With Matched Controls” in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, now available online! 🎉🏆🙌🏽 

Two of our current PhD students will present their work at the Marilyn Gossman poster session at APTA's Combined Sections meeting in Houston, TX! 🙌🏽 🏅💡Join  Soniya Kadam for her presentation about EMG and biosignal insights about yoga 💜Dannyelle Long PT, DPT will present her work titled: "Comparison of Knee Kinematics Assessed with Markerless and Marker-Based Approaches During a Basketball-Specific Task" ⛹️🏀☀️

Huge congratulations Dr. Mark Vorensky, PT, DPT, OCS, SCS, PhD! Great to see your dissertation work in the peer-reviewed literature. I can't wait to cite it in class in the spring - what we say matters!

"Even without physical treatment, differences in patient-clinician relationships acutely affected lifting performance and pain among individuals with chronic low back pain" 

Great job Jinghui Yang and Takumi Fukunaga, who presented their research at the Marilyn Gossman forum at APTA's Combined Sections Meeting in San Diego, CA! Bravo! 

Congratulations Dr. Jinghui Yang on this fantastic publication! In collaboration with Sarmad Mehrdad, Rory O Keeffe and Drs. Seyed Yahya Shirazi and S. Farokh Atashzar 💡⚡🙌🏽

So excited to use biosignal approaches and examine mechanisms underlying hypoalgesia with resistance training 🧠💪