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Heather K Vincent, PhD, MS, FACSM : Research

Sports Medicine Specialist

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Research at a glance

Top areas of exploration

  • Obesity , 25 publications
  • Running , 21 publications
  • Athletic Injuries , 18 publications
  • Exercise , 18 publications

Research activity

178 publications

4,066 citations

Why is this important?

Focus

Dr. Vincent is the Vice Chair of Research, Director of the Exercise Medicine and Functional Fitness Laboratory and the Director of the BOB体育 Sports Performance Center. She was a University Term Professor 2018-2021. Her main clinical research focus is the study of the effects of obesity on joint disease mechanisms such as osteoarthritis, and the development of exercise based interventions to reduce disease pathology, pain and disability. She uses an integrative approach in her research, and combines physiological assessment, biochemical markers, biomechanical measures and patient subjective measures to study these relationships.

In the Sports performance Center, Dr. Vincent oversees the development of numerous health, fitness and motion analysis services. Her main sport foci include running for health, injury prevention and the study of lacrosse. Her specialty for lifestyle change includes the use of exercise and nutrition modification for weight management and health.

My publications

178 publications

2020

Correcting Foot Crossover While Running.

Current sports medicine reports

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2020

How soon can we identify at-risk patients: examining initial depressive symptomology and opioid use in musculoskeletal trauma survivors?

Injury

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2020

Impact of Body Mass Index on Biomechanics of Recreational Runners.

PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation

2020

Potential lower extremity amputation-induced mechanisms of chronic low back pain: role for focused resistance exercise

Disability and Rehabilitation

2020

Simple tests of cardiorespiratory fitness in a pediatric population

PLOS ONE

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