Category: Alumni

Category: Alumni

HealthDay News: “Can 6,000 Steps a Day Keep Knee Arthritis at Bay?”

(6/12/14) Daniel White, research assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training, quoted. “People with or at risk for knee arthritis should be walking around 6,000 steps per day, and the more walking one does the less risk of developing functioning difficulties.” View Full Article.

6,000 Steps A Day Keeps Knee OA Limitations Away

A new study shows that walking reduces risk of functional limitation associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). In fact, the study funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) journal, Arthritis Care & Research, suggests that walking 6,000 or more steps per day […]

Boston.com: “How Diabetes Affects Your Health and Wallet”

(6/10/14) Clinical Associate Professor and featured Boston.com blogger Joan Salge Blake weighs in on a recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “It’s estimated that 26 million folks in the United States have diabetes and a whopping 79 million adults have prediabetes.” View Full Article.

SAR Student Named Schweitzer Fellow

Alanna Wolf, a rising graduate student in the Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy (MSOT) Program at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, has been named a 2014 Albert Schweitzer Fellow. This national honor empowers graduate students in the health sciences to have an immediate and lasting impact on the needs […]