Physical Therapy
Richard W. Bohannon, PT
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Richard Bohannon, DPT, EdD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) and Principal of Physical Therapy Consultants (Fuquay-Varina, NC). He has also served as a faculty member at the University of Illinois and more recently Campbell University. Dr Bohannon is a licensed physical therapist with more than 40 years of clinical experience in diverse practice settings (acute care, rehabilitation, outpatient, and home-care). He was board certified as a specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy from 1999 to 2019 and is currently a Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association, the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, the American Society of Neurorehabilitation, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia, and Wasting Disorders. He is a prolific writer with over 500 publications in more than 50 different journals to his credit. According to Google Scholar his work has been cited more than 40,000 times with more than 300 of his papers cited 10 or more times. In 1996 he received the American Physical Therapy Associations Helen Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Professional Literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Association's Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy and in 2008 he was honored with the Association's Jules Rothstein Golden Pen Award for Scientific Writing. Dr Bohannon is presently Co-editor in Chief of the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He served as Editor in chief of the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy for over 10 years. Dr. Bohannon serves on numerous editorial boards and has reviewed manuscripts for more than 100 different journals. Dr Bohannons interdisciplinary clinical practice, research and teaching is focused primarily on the measurement, implications, and treatment of impairments (most notably muscle weakness) and activity limitations (primarily mobility) in older adult and neurologic populations. He is ranked #4 in the North America by as a physiotherapy researcher by Scientific Index.
Schools
University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Boston University
Doctors Specialties
- Physical Therapy
