Director: Wen Ling, PT, PhD - wkl1@nyu.edu
Associate Director: Andrew L. McDonough, PT, EdD - alm3@nyu.edu
Lab Description:
Faculty and graduate student research is conducted at the Department of Physical Therapy's Human Performance Laboratory. The lab is opened five days per week and staffed by graduate assistants who oversee and maintain the lab and equipment. Assistants are available by appointment to assist other graduate students and faculty in learning to use state-of-the-art research equipment and instruments. Our primary research focus is in the area of pathokinesiology (kinesiology of the disabled) where motor control, motor learning and biomechanical issues are investigated in both normal and disabled populations. This lab, in association with other research laboratories, also conducts cardiopulmonary research.
Five full-time members of the physical therapy faculty coordinate graduate student research in both the Masters and doctoral programs and closely monitor student progress from the beginning of pilot studies and the proposal stage through data collection and analysis leading to the thesis or dissertation.
Lab Equipment:
- Biodex two-chair dynamometer
- Ariel Performance Analysis System (three dimensional - two video cameras) with eight channel EMG
- Qualisys (MacReflex - three dimensional - five infrared cameras) Motion Analysis System with real-time data processing capabilties
- Brainsight Frameless Neuronavigation System with Northern Digital Polaris Camera
- Magstim Super Rapid2 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator
- Kistler force plate
- Therapeutics Unlimited four channel EMG (two units) with bipolar pre-amplified electrodes
- Electrogoniometers (two) and amplifiers
- LabVIEW programming language and software
- GAITRite gait analysis system (two)
- Physiodyne metabolic cart with EKG with calibrated treadmill and bicycle ergometer
- Networked Pentium II & III and Mac computers with A-to-D boards and printers
- Motorized treadmills (four)
- Kistler forces tranducers and amplifiers (two)
- Microswitches and event markers
- VCRs and monitors
- 8mm Video camera