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| Vol. 18, No. 27 | April 15, 1999 |
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Stuart Binder-Macleod, physical therapy, has received the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy, the major research award in the field of physical therapy. The honor recognizes those individuals who have performed and sustained an outstanding basic, clinical and/or educational research effort and published their studies.
The award will be presented at the APTA's annual conference in June in Washington, D.C.
In 1993, the APTA presented Binder-Macleod with the Eugene Michels New Investigator Award, which recognizes outstanding research and publication accomplishments of new scientists in the field.
His research involves identifying better ways to activate human skeletal muscles through functional electrical stimulation to help people with such disabilities as strokes regain some control of their muscles. He carries out his research with both human and animal research models in UD's Muscle Performance Laboratory.
"One of the problems we are trying to solve is that artificially, electrically stimulated muscles tend to become more quickly fatigued than muscles that are stimulated by the central nervous system. Our goal is to discover better patterns using electrical stimulation," he said.
Binder-Macleod, who chairs the physical therapy department and has been at UD for 11 years, has been active in APTA, especially its research section. He received his bachelor's degree in physical therapy from the State University of New York at Buffalo, his master's degree from Emory University and his doctorate in physiology from the Medical College of Virginia and has published extensively in his field.
