About us

Our research aims to understand the individual factors that shape gait behaviors in healthy and pathological populations. For this research, the lab integrates experimental methods in motor control, biomechanics, and physiology and machine learning methods for analyses. The long-term goal of our research program is to identify individual-specific factors that can serve as intervention targets during therapies aimed at restoring gait in people after injury, with special emphasis on survivors of cerebrovascular accident or stroke.  Our research has been funded by the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health.

We are part of the Chapman Physical Therapy Department. Continually accredited since 1928, Chapman's Department of Physical Therapy is the longest running Physical Therapists Education program in the United States.