Uniting disciplines for a modern take: exploring the science behind manual therapies

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.

Notes on contributors

Victoria E. Abraira

Victoria E. Abraira, with her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California and a graduate degree in Neuroscience from Harvard University, established a foundation for her research during her postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins/Harvard Medical School. There, she delved into the complexities of touch perception, focusing on sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and the neural codes in the spinal cord and higher brain centers. Now at Rutgers University, she leads a research group dedicated to advancing the understanding of touch and its integration with pain and proprioception. Her work, employing molecular genetics and neurophysiological techniques, has significant implications for understanding sensory disorders and enhancing sensory information processing in the central nervous system.

Victor H. Barocas

Victor H. Barocas received his bachelors and masters degrees at MIT and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, all in Chemical Engineering. He has been on the faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota since 2001, and his research involves the interaction between soft tissue mechanics and function across scales. He has particular interest in structural effects, growth and remodeling, and damage.

Beth A. Winkelstein

Beth A. Winkelstein, PhD is the Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also has an appointment in the Department of Neurosurgery. Her research focuses on defining mechanisms of mechanotransduction in pain, with the goal of improving clinical care and outcomes via developing diagnostic and intervention approaches.

Chad E. Cook

Chad E. Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA is a professor at Duke University, where his primary appointment is in the Department of Orthopaedics; he has secondary appointments in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Duke Clinical Research Institute. He is part of over 11 million dollars in external funding and is a prolific researcher with over 360 publications.