AAOMPT Awards

Submissions are no longer being accepted for the following awards this year:

Click here  for the Emerging Leader Award (New for 2021)

Click here  for the Distinguished Lecturer Award.

Click here for the Innovation Award (New for 2021)

Click here for the John McMillan Mennell Award.

Click here for the Kaltenborn, Teach I Must Award.

Click here for more information on the Honorary Fellow Procedure and Criteria

AAOMPT 2020 Best Poster Presentations: Case Reports

• First Place
  Presenter: Paul Mintken (University of Colorado)
  PNEUMOTHORAX FOLLOWING DRY NEEDLING OF PERISCAPULAR MUSCLES UTILIZING A RIB BRACKETING TECHNIQUE: A CASE REPORT
  Author(s): Paul Mintken, Amy McDevitt, Blair Denman
  
  
• Second Place
  Presenter: Vladimir Smolgovskiy (University of Hartford)
  THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF A PATIENT WITH CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE, POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME, AND HYPERLAXITY: A CASE REPORT
  Author(s): Brian Swanson, Vladimir Smolgovskiy
  
  
• Third Place
  Presenter: Griffin Lee (HonorHeath)
  SUSTAINED END RANGE MOBILIZATIONS AND EXERCISE FOR A PATIENT WITH REFRACTORY KNEE STIFFNESS FOLLOWING PATELLAR FRACTURE: A CASE REPORT
  Author(s): Griffin Lee

AAOMPT 2020 Best Platform Presentations

• First Place Overall: Dick Ehrard Platform Presentation Award
  Daniel Maddox (Upstream Rehab Institute)
  LOCAL AND WIDESPREAD HYPOALGESIC EFFECTS OF UPPER EXTREMITY NEURODYNAMICS
  Author(s): Daniel Maddox, Barrett Stanley, Poonam Hurley, Fredy Solis
  
  
• Cranio-Cervical-Thoracic-Upper Extremity 5x5
  Sean Riley (Sacred Heart University)
  DOES GLENOHUMERAL MOBILIZATION SYMPTOM RESPONSE AT THE INITIAL EVALUATION PREDICT OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM SUBACROMIAL PAIN SYNDROME? A COHORT STUDY
  Author(s): Sean Riley, Jonathan Harris, Bryan O'Halloran, Chris Showalter, Ken Learman
  
  
• First Place 5x5: Lumbopelvic Spine
  Evan Petersen (University of the Incarnate Word)
  RELIABILITY AND ACCURACY OF AN EXPERT PHYSICAL THERAPIST AS A REFERENCE STANDARD FOR A MANUAL THERAPY JOINT MOBILIZATION TRIAL
  Author(s): Evan Petersen, Stephanie Thurmond, Catherine Shaw, Kelly Miller, Tommy Lee, Jonathan Koborsi
  
  
• Lumbopelvic & Lower Extremity 5x5
  Emily Slaven (University of Indianapolis)
  THE IMPACT OF A THRUST MANIPULATION TO THE HIP JOINT: A BIOMECHANICAL OR NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE, OR BOTH? A PILOT STUDY
  Author(s): Emily Slaven, Nathanial Eckert
  
  
• Professional Topic/Innovative Approach 5x5
  George Clevenger (Army-Baylor University)
  AGENDA SETTING AND THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE IN OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL THERAPY: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
  Author(s): George Clevenger, Bryan Pickens, Shawn Stoute, Matthew Helton, Christopher Allen, Jon Umlauf

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