Kinesiology Professor Receives $541K Grant
By Moyosore Ayo-Ogunyemi
Kinesiology professor Jeff Nessler received a three-year, $541,168 grant to study how great toe function influences balance, gait and fall risk in older adults to improve assessment and prevention strategies. The grant is from the National Institute on Aging from the National Institutes of Health.
The primary goal is enhancing fall-risk assessment, rehabilitation techniques and comprehension of age-related changes in mobility. The project aims to fill in gaps in the body of knowledge on toe strength and balance.
Some key points of this research include enhancing a novel device that measures multiple aspects of great toe function, including force control, force generation across joint angles and force during movement and comparing the relationships in younger vs. older adults.
Reaching these goals will offer significant understanding of how aging affects great toe function and produce a great toe function measuring technique that could help in standardizing measurements utilized by other researchers that examine fall risk in older persons.
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