Mission
The BioMotion Lab seeks to advance care following lower extremity injury through identifying new mechanisms and innovative treatments that improve the overall well-being of our local community, the Commonwealth, and beyond. We invest in our lab members through a learner-centered, collaborative team culture that develops future leaders through mentorship, skill-building, and meaningful opportunities to contribute.
Keystones
- Challenge the standard of care to improve treatments and advance the profession of physical therapy
- Develop non-invasive tools to evaluate musculoskeletal health
- Use innovative biomechanical analyses to understand dysfunction after injury
- Translate findings to clinical and local communities
- Power a learner-centered, multidisciplinary, collaborative team culture
Values
We engage with each other to be our best selves and the best at what we do. We strive for excellence in our work and reflect our lab values in what we do and say. We provide a safe space with deep and rich support to be our best selves and challenge our ideas.
Strive Together: Our lab is first and foremost a diverse team of people focused on solving important problems. We strive together to solve problems small and big, support each other, and overcome challenges as a team.
Disciplined: We show up focused and ready to work towards our objectives. We think about every detail of how we do things to be rigorous with our research and find ways to do it better and more efficiently.
Initiative: We actively look for what needs to be done and engage with it. Our lab embodies scientific curiosity. We stay curious and open to various ideas and possibilities.
Resourceful: We seek and find the tools and information to get things done. We reach out for help when we encounter difficult issues and provide our team with the ideas we have tried.
Respectful: We are respectful to each other, our participants and patients, collaborators, visitors, and community members. We exemplify this value through honest and open communication, assuming good intentions on the part of others, and respecting personal boundaries.
Resilient: We are able to withstand the difficult times and celebrate the good times. We rely on each other and when faced with failure and setbacks, bounce back ready to try again.