SMRI research is organized into four main areas: Active Duty/Veterans, Athletics, Active Girls Healthy Women, and Equestrian Athlete. Each area is focused on developing strategies unique to injury and task-specific needs of these populations:
- Characterize health, injury, and performance profiles to inform training practice and policy
- Develop strategies for occupational, sport, and lifestyle injury prevention and performance
- Validate interventions for musculoskeletal and concussion treatment and performance optimization
- Implement interventions to achieve long-term health and wellness
For over 25 years, faculty from the Sports Medicine Research Institute has:
- Studied the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries
- Developed an extensive research agenda focusing on:
- Proprioception and neuromuscular control in joint stability
- The role of capsuloligamentous structures in the pathoetiology of joint injury
- Comprehensive profiles of an individual's function and risk by evaluating both the sensory and motor characteristics specific to musculoskeletal injury and pathology
- Biomechanical and neuromuscular assessments under sports-simulated environments
- The effects of injury, surgery, and rehabilitation on joint stability and function
- Characterizing the physical and physiological demand of sport and military tasks
- Identification of deficiencies in body mechanics and muscle function
- Develop programs to improve performance and minimize potential for injury
- Secured over $50M in funded research from sources which include, the Department of Defense, National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NFL Charities Foundation, and serval other foundations
- Delivered over 20 keynote lectures at professional events around the world
- Published over 200 Peer-reviewed manuscripts
- Delivered more than 350 national and international presentations