NIH issues study grant to UNF professor
A professor at the University of North Florida has been awarded a National Institute of Health grant for $145,000 to study knee pain.
Michelle Boling, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical and Applied Movement Sciences at the UNF, will study the structural and biomechanical as well as demographic and psychosocial risk factors associated with patellofemoral pain syndrome. The syndrome is one of the most common causes of knee pain.
She is collaborating with researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Charleston, Uniformed Services University and the United States Military Academy.
“We hope that the findings from this investigation may be used to develop injury prevention programs to decrease the risk of developing PFP,” said Boling cash advance in one hour.
She hopes to learn if risk factors for the condition are gender-specific. It affects approximately 25 percent of the physically-active population, with females being 2 to 3 times more likely to develop it than their male counterparts.
Boling has been a faculty member at UNF since 2008 and has previously received a Transformational Learning Opportunity Grant from UNF, a University of North Carolina Future Faculty Fellowship and an Outstanding Alumni award by the University of Kentucky College of Health Sciences.