Discovery scholarship
stats4PT
Develops the language and methods for moving from observations toward evidence, estimates, uncertainty, and warranted scientific or causal claims.
Physical therapist · Scientist · Educator
Building an explicit path from movement and evidence to clinical judgment.
I study how human movement emerges, how it can be measured, and how evidence and mechanisms can support an inspectable working model of one person.
The premise
Clinical reasoning needs infrastructure.
Scientific papers tell us about populations. Clinical practice asks what is likely true—and what to do next—for one person.
My work examines the space between those forms of knowledge. It brings together physical therapy, physiology, movement measurement, ergonomics and human factors, causal analysis, evidence synthesis, and education with an emerging program in computational clinical inquiry.
How the program fits together →Movement Systems · HMS Lab
Physical therapists are human movement system specialists.
Movement Systems studies how movement emerges, how it can be measured, and how population knowledge about movement becomes useful for one person.
The Human Movement Systems Laboratory is the program’s clinically oriented empirical arm. It brings observations and questions from physical therapy into governed measurement, experimentation, mechanistic explanation, modeling, and renewed clinical inquiry.
Its work supports Plymouth State University DPT’s clinicians-first, hands-on learning philosophy and connection to the Pro Bono Clinic while keeping clinical care, education, and research distinct and appropriately governed.
Explore Movement SystemsClinical Inquiry Ecosystem
Distinct forms of scholarship, connected.
Inspired by Boyer’s model of scholarship, five independent projects contribute different kinds of knowledge. Evidence and physiological and movement mechanisms inform integrative population models, which support—but never determine—reasoning about an individual patient.
Generative mechanisms
Physiolog
Contributes physiological knowledge about how and why effects occur, adding causal depth beyond observed interventions and outcomes.
Movement knowledge
Movement Systems
Develops movement-domain theory, measurement, modeling, and empirical inquiry through the Human Movement Systems Laboratory.
Integrative scholarship
Models4PT
Integrates evidence, mechanisms, context, provenance, uncertainty, and disagreement into comprehensive population-level causal models.
Practice scholarship
Clinical Inference Engine
Combines population causal knowledge with individual information to support inspectable, patient-specific practice reasoning.
stats4PT evidence + Physiolog mechanisms + Movement Systems knowledgeModels4PT population causal knowledgeClinical Inference Engine patient-specific instantiation
Explore the scholarly roles and boundaries →Explore
A portfolio organized for reading.
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Research program
The intellectual architecture connecting evidence, physiology, human movement, population knowledge, and individual inference.
02Projects
Implemented work, prototypes, and future-facing initiatives—described at their actual stage of maturity.
03Publications
A complete CV-derived bibliography of 99 papers, abstracts, presentations, books, chapters, and other publications.
04About
Clinical, academic, editorial, and leadership experience underlying the present research program.
Public writing
The Peripatetic Physical Therapist
Essays and reflections for a broader audience on physical therapy, education, science, institutions, and the ideas encountered along the way.
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