CURRENT
- REAC Fund 7/1/06-6/30/07
High Field MRI assessment of articular cartilage before and after marathon running: Does long-distance running lead to cartilage damage?(PI)
Investigate the effects of long-distance marathon running on articular cartilage and bone marrow using a high field MRI using new T1-rho weighting techniques
- Canadian Academy of Sports Medicine 1/1/07-5/30/07
Web-based International Survery of Health and Physical Activities Levels (WISHPAL) to assess the Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on Activity in High School Students
Investigate socioeconomic factors that influence sports participation using an internet-based survey; we hope to understand how socioeconomic status, culture, ethnicity, and other competing interests affect physical activity levels in high school students in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland
PENDING
Will pursue further funding to support the current projects 2. I was just recently awarded the REAC grant.
PAST
Massachusett's Governing Committee on Physical Activity in Sports 9/1/00-6/30/01
Walnut Hill High School for the Arts / Childrens Hospital of Boston, Natick, MA $1000
Prospective Pilot Study: Determinants of Injuries in Young Dancers (PI)
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 7/1/02- 6/30/03
Clinical decision rules predicting elevated compartment pressures in patients with suspected anterior exertional compartment syndrome.
London Health Sciences Centre Lawson Health Research Institute Internal Research Fund $1000 CAD
Raymond and Rosalee Weiss Research Endowment 7/1/05-6/30/06
American College of Sports Medicine $1,500
Survey Assessment of the Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on Sports Participation in High School Students (PI)
- Web-based survey to understand socioeconomic factors that influence sports participation
- Identify areas of intervention for increasing activity and fitness
Healthy Dancers' Clinic: Description of a community-based outreach clinic for dancers 2/01/07 - pres. This survey will describe demographics and injury details of clients seen at the Heathly Dancers' Clinic at the Oberlein Dance Collective, San Francisco, California - non-funded project - Presented at 2007 UCSF Inmann Abbott Society Meeting
NON-FUNDED
Effect of the Adolecent Core Training (ACT) Program on Lumbar Stability, Dynamic Postural Balance, and Lower Limb Control (Co-PI) 12/01/06 - Present
-This project will assess the effectiveness on a core stability strength training program that will be carried out on high school students. Non-funded project
Defining and Identifying Overscheduling Injuries in Young Athletes (PI) 12/01/07-Present
-Suvery of pediatric primary care physicians to define overscheduling injury criteria. Non-funded project. Survery of pediatric patients at University Based Sports medicine clinics to assess validity of criteria
