Measuring up

(From left) Kelly Mushill, a second-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy; Suzanne Cornbleet, DPT, assistant professor of physical therapy and of orthopaedic surgery; and Marie Harper, a second-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, evaluate Maplewood-Richmond Heights Elementary School fourth-grader Zackery Kottkamp’s posture and flexibility. Second-year doctoral students in the Program in Physical Therapy looked at the alignment of the pupils’ bodies, simple movements, muscle lengths, ranges of motion and hip rotations and then made recommendations to parents on what they should watch for and if the assessments required a referral to physical therapy.