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Dr. Ashlea Cardin featured in Mind’s Eye

September 18, 2024 by Strategic Communication

Congratulations to Dr. Ashlea Cardin for her feature in the Mind’s Eye magazine. Cardin is an associate professor of occupational therapy at Missouri State University.

Her research dives into removing barriers that prevent and/or restrict people from engaging in meaningful daily activities they need to do, want to do or must do that occupy their time. When they cannot engage in these activities, it affects their health and quality of life. 

She focuses her work on two groups – babies (and their family members) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the Amish community.

Congratulations Dr. Cardin!

The full story is now available online.

Excerpt:

As an infant, Dr. Ashlea Cardin came into the world with many limb differences. This meant undergoing plenty of surgeries, therapies and rehabilitation throughout her childhood.

While she received high-quality care, it was not geared toward kids or their families.

“My therapy looked very much like a younger version of adult therapy,” said Cardin, associate professor of occupational therapy at Missouri State University. “I loved my therapists, but my therapy wasn’t fun.”

Her parents also lacked the information and guidance to help her at home. This caused them to see her as fragile, afraid of what she could and could not do.

“They didn’t have that person or coach who came alongside them and said, ‘It’s OK she does cartwheels or push-ups or goes across the monkey bars. Her movements are going to look a little bit different. Here’s how we protect her body. Here’s how we adapt,’” Cardin said.

Their collective experiences — both positive and negative — led her to pursue a career in health care, as a pediatric occupational therapist (OT).

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Ashlea Cardin, Mind's Eye, Occupational Therapy, research

Dr. Kip Thompson featured in Mind’s Eye magazine

March 2, 2022 by Jonah Rosen

Dr. Kip Thompson

Dr. Kip Thompson studies public health and how diseases spread throughout communities. His most recent research on how diseases are spread through military operations is featured in the 2022 issue of Mind’s Eye.

The full story is available on the site now.

Here is an excerpt:

Service members who live in close quarters on base are at risk for rapid outbreaks of diseases like GI. To control them, quick detection of the cause is critical.

When Thompson was in Kuwait, his Preventive Medicine unit had polymerase chain reaction (PCR) capabilities. PCR enabled RNA or DNA sequencing to detect the pathogen of an outbreak within hours.

Using the system, he and his team were able to quickly identify a GI outbreak caused by norovirus.

“Because of that, we were also able to reduce the disease burden,” Thompson said. “The incidence of disease was down 10 fold compared to locations with the same outbreak but without the system we had.”

Read the full story

Congratulations, Dr. Thompson!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Mind's Eye, Public health and sports medicine, research

Going viral: Surveying the risk of transmitting disease

September 20, 2021 by Strategic Communication

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: David Claborn, Mind's Eye, Public health and sports medicine

Breaking down unattainable body image standards

June 3, 2021 by Strategic Communication

Portrait of Dr. Brooke Whisenhunt

Congratulations, Dr. Whisenhunt!

Dr. Brooke Whisenhunt, professor of psychology, researches body image ideals among women in the media.

Along with Dr. Danae Hudson, professor of psychology, and students, Whisenhunt studied the changing ideal figure. For women today, it’s a contradictory tall, thin and muscular.

“We expect women to restrict eating to get really thin, but now we also expect them to build muscle, which is very contradictory,” Whisenhunt said. Beyond it being unrealistic, she said, “the real kick is that it’s touted as healthier, making it harder for women to reject the notion.”

Read full story in Mind’s Eye

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Dr. Brooke Whisenhunt, Mind's Eye, Psychology

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