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Paula Geigle Named SwimEx Grant Recipient Paula
Richley Geigle, PT, PhD, West Chester, Penn., has been named
recipient of the Aquatic Physical Therapy Section's $5,000 SwimEx Clinical Research Grant.
Her study, entitled "Role of Aquatic Exercise in Breast Cancer
Related Lymphedema Management," will use a single-blind pilot to
determine whether the addition of aquatic exercise provides a clinically
important benefit to women with symptomatic Geigle is a clinical faculty member at the University of Delaware's Department of Physical Therapy. Her 25 years of practice experience includes treatment across the lifespan, full-time physical therapy education and clinical research. She is an Aquatic PT Section past president, secretary and bylaws chair and will soon assume the position of co-editor of the Journal of Aquatic Physical Therapy. The archive photo to the left was taken at a social gathering during a recent APTA Combined Sections Meeting. Geigle has made numerous presentations at national meetings, provides continuing education nationally, and publishes clinical practice and research articles. Her initial research in aquatic intervention for women with breast cancer-related lymphedema began during her National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Complementary and Alternative Medicine-funded post doctoral experience at the University of Pennsylvania's Medical School, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Section's clinical research grant was made possible by a gift from SwimEx, a leading designer and manufacturer of residential swim spas and commercial aquatic therapy and sports conditioning pools. Eric Murphy, PT, MS, Aquatic Therapy Market Coordinator for SwimEx, presented the funds to the Section, during the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in San Diego in February. Murphy said the grant was the first of its kind and marks the debut of the Aquatic Physical Therapy Section's Grants Program. The goal of the program is to encourage physical therapists to conduct studies on aquatic interventions to prove efficacy. "We need to further support the impressive outcomes we're seeing in our aquatic patients through clinical and therapeutic efficacy studies," Murphy said. |
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exercise näive. The announcement
was made by Deborah Thorpe, PT, PhD, PCS, Aquatic Section director of
research and Karolyn Grimm, PT, MS, Section president.