Measurements that define the timing and spatial aspects of gait, which are crucial for understanding the pace and rhythm of walking
What are spatiotemporal parameters?
This standardized tool is used to evaluate movement patterns to prevent re-injury in sports
What is the Functional Movement Screen (FMS)?
Number of thoracic vertebrae
What is 12?
This instrument
What is kerrison rongeur?
The CEO of Texas Back Institute
Who is Trish Bowling?
Refers to the study of how the body moves regardless of the forces that move it
What are kinematics?
This FMS test at TBI measures trunk stability during a symmetrical upper-extremity movement
What is the Trunk Stability Push-Up?
Diagnosis of one vertebral body sliding over the top of the one below it
What is spondylolisthesis?
The ability of a material to act as a scaffold for bone growth
What is osteoinductivity?
Staff member who earned their bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering from Texas A&M?
Who is Kyle Robinson?
The study of forces in the body caused by mass and muscle, investigating the stresses on the body and joints during bodily movements
What are kinetics?
Who governs physical therapy standards to ensure consumer safety and high standards of practice?
Executive Council of PT and OT Examiners in Texas
The thin cartilage strip that allows diffusion of nutrients into the disc from the vertebrae
What is the endplate?
A mixture of bacteria, microorganisms and the slimy, glue-like substance they secrete that grows on surfaces inside the body
What is biofilm?
Staff member who went to Uganda for a spine surgery mission trip
Who is Bethany Wilson?
A sensor using gyroscopic and accelerometer technology for the purpose of recording movement in relation to other sensors
What is an IMU?
How many exercises are in the entire FMS battery?
What is 7?
Makes up the majority of the nucleus of a healthy disc
What is water?
A biologically inert polymer that has an equal ratio of stress acting on it to strain produced to that of human bone and appears transparent on an x ray
What is polyetheretherketone?
Roger's role at TBI
What is Senior technical analyst?
Number of reflective markers we place on the patient in the gait lab
What is 41?
What category of exercise encompasses pelvic tilts and bridges?
What are core strengthening exercises?
This CT image is an example of which view?
What is sagittal?
Donated bone that undergoes freezing, sterilization and removal of calcium and phosphate to provide a scaffolding for the patient's osteoblasts to grow bone into
What is demineralized bone matrix?
The three staff members who have PhD's
Who are Donna, Sara, and Mary?