Alumni grant
supports medical
student research
Two students
receive the Sybert
Family Orthopedic
Research Awards
Two students at the
Ohio University
Heritage College of
Osteopathic Medicine
received Sybert
Family Orthopedic
Research Award
grants from the
college’s Institute
for
Neuromusculoskeletal
Research.
The award, now in
its second year, is
designed to promote
osteopathic student
research in the
field of
orthopedics. The
award has provided
up to $5,000 to an
OU-COM student in
support of research.
Funding for the
award was provided
by Daryl Sybert,
D.O. (’86),
F.A.O.A.O.,
OU-COM clinical
associate professor
of orthopedic
surgery and an
orthopedic surgeon
at the Mt. Carmel
New Albany Surgery
Hospital.
Paul
H. Eichenseer, OMS
III, received a
$3,000 grant for his
project, “Fine
Element Modeling of
the Human Sacroiliac
Joints,” and
David J. Goss Jr.,
OMS II, received
a grant for $2,000
for his project,
“Neurophysiology of
Spinal
Manipulation.”
Eichenseer, who was
the award’s first
recipient last year,
conducts research on
spino-pelvic
biomechanics with a
particular interest
in sacroiliac join
mechanics. He is
mentored by Sybert
as well as John
Cotton, Ph.D., of
the Russ College of
Engineering and
Technology.
Eichenseer received
his bachelor’s
degree in biophysics
from Johns Hopkins
University in 2006,
and he worked as a
research associate
at The Ohio State
University prior to
beginning medical
school. His research
focuses on the
sacroiliac joint, a
historically
under-studied joint
between the sacrum
and the pelvis.
Eichenseer will
continue work he
began with last
year’s award. “We’re
looking at stresses
in the pelvis and in
the spine, and how
stresses are
transmitted from the
upper part of the
body down through
the spine and pelvis
to the lower
extremity,” he said
last year.
Goss,
who earned a
bachelor’s degree in
exercise science
from Eastern
University, worked
as an orthopedic
assistant for Ray
Tesner, D.O., in
Columbus at
SportsMedicine GRANT
and Orthopedic
Associates for two
years before
enrolling at OU-COM.
Tesner is an OU-COM
clinical associate
professor of
orthopedic surgery.
Last year, Goss
completed a Research
and Scholarly
Advancement
Fellowship (RSAF)
under the guidance
of Brian Clark,
Ph.D., assistant
professor of
neuromuscular
biology, in which he
studied the
physiologic effects
and mechanisms of
high-velocity
low-amplitude (HVLA)
spinal manipulation
in patients with
chronic low back
pain. The research
was supported in
part by a grant from
the Osteopathic
Heritage
Foundations.
Goss said the Sybert
Award will allow him
to continue to
explore the
pathophysiology of
low back pain and
further evaluate the
effects of
osteopathic
manipulation
techniques. “It is
my hope that these
studies will reveal
some of details
behind the
clinically effective
mechanisms of spinal
manipulation in
treatment of chronic
low back pain,” he
said.
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