ATSU-ASHS awarded $10K research grant
Posted: March 18, 2009<strong>MESA, Ariz.</strong> (Mar. 18, 2009) – A team from A.T. Still University’s <a href=”http://www.atsu.edu/ashs/index.htm” target=”_blank”>Arizona School of Health Sciences</a> (ATSU-ASHS) was recently awarded a $10,000 grant by the <a href=”http://www.headaches.org/” target=”_blank”>National Headache Foundation</a> for a research project entitled “The effect of sport-related concussion on headache- and health-related quality of life in children and adolescents.”
According to Tamara Vaolvich McLeod, Ph.D., ATC, associate professor of athletic training at ATSU-ASHS and principal investigator in the project, the broad, long-term objective of the research will be to improve the health-related quality of life of individuals following sport-related concussion during childhood and adolescence. Co-investigators on the project include ATSU-ASHS interdisciplinary health science team members Curt Bay, Ph.D., associate professor; John Parsons, M.S., ATC, assistant professor; and Alison Snyder, Ph.D., ATC, assistant professor.
“This grant will help to advance the sports medicine communities’ understanding of how sport-related concussions impact the whole person, making this project both innovative and consistent with the osteopathic principles that define ATSU,” said Eric Sauers, Ph.D., ATC, ATSU-ASHS athletic training program director and chair of the department of interdisciplinary health sciences. “This research could lead to the development of new measurement instruments for assessing this vital outcome in a vulnerable population.”
The National Headache Foundation, founded in 1970, is a non-profit organization which exists to enhance the healthcare of headache sufferers. It is a source of help to sufferers’ families, physicians who treat headache sufferers, allied healthcare professionals and to the public. The NHF accomplishes its mission by providing educational and informational resources, supporting headache research and advocating for the understanding of headache as a legitimate neurobiological disease.