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(4/30/2020, Creakyjoints) Expert Quote: “Use voice recognition software to give your hands a break” – Karen Jacobs, clinical professor of occupational therapy Read this article
Adjusting to a work from home lifestyle can be tough, especially when you’re used to the benefits of the office. To help with the transition, Clinical Professor of Occupational Therapy Karen Jacobs shares tips on setting up your home environment to be more ergonomically friendly.
(3/24/20, BU Today) A conversation with a friend last week led Elizabeth Co to immediately begin mobilizing to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. “I know that nobody is getting these masks now, but somehow we did…I thought, we’re sitting on these cases of lifesaving masks, when you know doctors everywhere are facing shortages. So, I […]
(3/18/2020, CNBC) Expert Quote: “Supporting your feet on an elevated surface, or stretching your legs long increases circulation and can feel nice. Ideally, your hips and thighs should form 90-degree angles when you sit in your chair, but you can move your feet back and forth for exercise.” – Karen Jacobs, clinical professor of occupational therapy […]
This SpotOn! podcast hosted by Clinical Associate Professor of Nutrition Joan Salge Blake episode welcomes Sargent student Molly Pelletier and Dr. Ilana Licht for a discussion on how to incorporate meditation into your daily life. Listen to the episode.
(3/9/20, Creaky Joints) Expert Quote: “…get another organizer for all your cleaning supplies and stash them into the slots instead of under the sink…It’ll help keep them organized and eliminate the need to bend down.” – Karen Jacobs, clinical professor of occupational therapy Read this article
(3/9/20, Boston Globe) Expert Quote: “…it’s the only neurodegenerative disease in which there is treatment; medicines control symptoms for a long time. I say to patients, ‘You need to learn to live with it.’ People can live for decades when diagnosed. There are ways to optimize the outcome.” – Associate Professor and Chair, Terry Ellis. […]
(3/6/20, The Conversation) At one time or another, just about every parent uses food to reward their kids for good behavior and achievements — or to console them when they’re sad or disappointed. When children make honor roll, win a big game or persevere through a struggle, a parent might express their pride and joy […]
Terry Ellis, PhD, PT, NCS, associate professor and chair in the Department of Physical Therapy & Athletic Training, has been named a 2020 Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). This is the second consecutive year that a Sargent faculty member has been selected for the top honor. Clinical Associate Professor Julie […]
(2/26/20, The Healthy) Expert Quote: For proper form, start a squat with your feet shoulder-width apart, toes pointing forward, knees behind your toes, and your head up. “When you lower your body, pretend you’re sitting in a chair, and keep your knees aligned over the second or third toes, but not beyond” – Karen Jacobs, […]
(2/28/20, BU Today) The Undergraduate Academic Advising Awards are given each year to advisors “who have engaged students in the collaborative process of advising and have had a significant impact on students’ academic careers.” Clinical associate professor of occupational therapy Nancy Lowenstein, who has been an advisor ever since coming to BU in 1999, knows […]
Students and faculty from our DPT and PhD programs presented their research at the American Physical Therapy Association’s 2020 Combined Sections Meeting in February.
(2/20/2020, WGBH) Expert Quote: “It’s not so much that it’s hard to say, it’s that it’s hard to know how to say it, the way it’s spelled,” said Boston University Professor of Phonetics Tyler Perrachione. “The ‘u’ makes a lot of different sounds, the ‘g’, you usually think of as a ‘guh’ so when we […]
Professor Helen Barbas and Graduate Program in Neuroscience student Mary Kate Joyce have created a detailed map of the neural pathways leading to and from area 25 in a nonhuman primate, a complex region known as the “sadness center” of the brain. “The pattern of connection is very important,” says Barbas. Read the article.
(12/18/19, BU Today) In a windowless room in the basement of Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, the day has finally arrived. It’s the Big Dissection. Two cadavers lie on gurneys in the back of the room under sharp fluorescent lights. Over the course of the semester so far, the graduate students have dissected […]