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Sheryl D. Finucane, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor (primary appointment Physical Therapy Department)
B.A., Biology, Wartburg College (1981)
B.S., Physical Therapy, Washington University (1983)
Ph.D., Anatomy/Physical Therapy, Virginia Commonwealth University (1991)
| Office Address: | | Department of Physical Therapy | | | | Virginia
Commonwealth University Medical Campus | | | | Box 980224 | | | | Richmond, VA
23298-0709 | | Office
Phone: | | (804) 828-0234 | | FAX: | | (804) 828-8111 | | e-mail: | | sfinucan@vcu.edu |
RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS
My interests are primarily in understanding how the musculoskeletal system responds to altered use and injury, and in developing ways to improve the healing response of the musculoskeletal tissues. Recent work has focused on comparing neuromuscular adaptations to different types of resistance training. Training parameters developed by our group (Dr. Mayhew and others) are used in order for subjects, training with concentric and eccentric contractions, to train at the same intensity. This has allowed us to begin to differentiate the neuromuscular adaptations that occur as a result of increasing training intensity to those that occur due to different modes of muscle use. Other current research is focused on improving the healing response of the medial collateral ligament (MCL) following complete ligament rupture. At present we are in the processes of determining whether treating ruptured ligaments with therapeutic ultrasound improves the mechanical and structural properties of the healed MCL.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Rafeei T, Finucane SDG, Mayhew TP: The effects of training at equal power levels using eccentric and concentric contractions on muscle hypertrophy. Physical Therapy 79:S32, 1999
Finucane SDG, Rafeei T, Kues J, Lamb RL, Mayhew TP: Reproducibility of electromyographic recordings of submaximal concentric and eccentric muscle contractions. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol. 109:290-296, 1998
Mayhew TP, Rothstein JM, Finucane SD, Lamb RL: Muscular Adaptation to Concentric and Eccentric Exercise at Equal Power Levels. Med Sci Sport Exercise, 27:868-873, 1995
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