Researchers at SHHS are exploring all the ways that physical activity can benefit people with orthopedic and neurological disorders—and prevent disease in currently healthy people.
Whether the topic is pain management or the benefits of exercise for certain populations, their efforts are helping to improve quality of life for people in our community and expanding our knowledge of what physical activity can do for our health.
As part of the IU Grand Challenges grant, Responding to the Addictions Crisis, SHHS is looking at the relationships of mobility and pain reduction, and the impact of interprofessional education on lessening opioid prescriptions.
The research currently being done at the Senate Avenue IU Health Family Medicine Clinic integrates interprofessional education with care to better address chronic pain management and the opioid crisis. The goal is to to decrease opioid usage while increasing the quality of life for participants.
This research assesses the feasibility of implementing fitness measures into a clinic-based lifestyle and wellness program serving adults aged 18 years and older in Indianapolis.
Researchers are also assessing whether it is appropriate to use these fitness measures for people younger than the population for which the battery of fitness tests was created.
Researchers in this area have access to a wide variety of clinics and laboratories, including the IU Health Comprehensive Pain Clinic, the Human Performance Laboratory at the National Institute for Fitness and Sport, and various spaces within Coleman Hall, University Hospital, and the Van Nuys Medical Science Building.
Specific equipment includes:
