Tagged as “School of Health Sciences and Human Performance”

Teacher Calan Gibney ’02 turns a yen for adventure into global volunteerism.  by George Sapio

“We should go somewhere,” said Calan Gibney ’02 idly to her colleague.

“How about New Zealand?” her...

A partnership between physical therapy and music has been helping performers for more than 16 years. By Erin McKigney

Musicians are athletes too. At least that’s what Nicholas Quarrier ’76, a clinical associate professor of physical therapy, believes.

Quarrier coined this phrase after he realized that many of his patients in the PT clinic on campus...

Last year Ithaca College participated for the first time in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which began in 1987. This spring 25 IC students — 10 from the Park School, 12 from the H&S, and 1 each from HSHP and the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Programs — presented their research at NCUR’s annual gathering, held in April in La Crosse,...

Physical therapist Michael Tabasko ’00, M.S. ’01, spends a month each year volunteering abroad. by Greg Ryan '08

Michael Tabasko ’00, M.S. ’01, never imagined he’d see someone so happy to be given a prosthetic leg. The recipient of the appendage, a Vietnamese man in his late 60s, had had his leg blown off by a land mine years earlier, and was...

‘‘Back stateside, we were just worker bees,” Chris Remillard told IC students in April. “Anything involved with running a clinic here, I’m in charge of. I’m it. I am the PT, OT, dietician, chiropractor, and ortho. Makes life a little interesting.”...