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On the News: Physical Therapy takes on Super Bowl LIII

The Super Bowl is a once-a-year event that provides endless material for commentators and fans to dissect. As Super Bowl LIII stretched into its final quarter on Sunday, it seemed to have been unanimously declared “the most boring Super Bowl ever,” with a final score of 13-3 making it the lowest-scoring championship match in professional football history. Rather than rehash what made the game so boring—Twitter users have taken care of that!—we asked members of our physical therapy faculty to tell us what caught their eye while watching a game that so often leaves players...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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'Circles' could offer promising outcomes after incarceration for people with serious mental illness

In the United States, adults with a serious mental illness make up a disproportionate number of inmates in prisons. While an estimated 10.4 million American adults have a serious mental illness—4.2 percent of the general population—people with a serious mental illness comprise 16 percent of the prison population. To address the unique needs of individuals with mental illness and a history in the justice system, investigators at the Temple University Collaborative on Community Inclusion have devised a program that would support people with serious mental illnesses after t...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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OT student group raises more than 30 boxes of toys for Shriners

Earlier this month, the Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA) brought holiday cheer to children in Shriners Hospitals for Children with a donation of gift boxes filled with toys, arts and crafts supplies, and more. Occupational therapy students Hannah Sternbach, Megan Arcangel, Remy Binder, Brittany Bowles, Sarah Daley, Lindsay Godshalk, Erin Kennedy, Meaghan Kennedy, Tyler MacDonald, Jessica Walker and Julia Wallace organized the drive, filling 35 boxes of gifts for the patients at Shriners. “The staff was very appreciative and knew that these toys would make...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
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In overwhelming environments, noise-canceling headphones may improve participation for children with autism

Beth Pfeiffer, associate professor of rehabilitation sciences, recently published research examining how children with autism who suffer from noise sensitivity respond to the use of noise-attenuating, or noise-canceling, headphones. In the article, which appeared this fall in Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, Pfeiffer and her co-investigators describe study participants’ positive response to using headphones and reported that while wearing headphones, children with autism were better able to participate in community settings that might be otherwise overwhelm...
Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

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