Chad E. Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA Director of Clinical Facilitation Research; Director, Duke Center of Excellence in Manual and Manipulative Therapy; Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Chad Cook, PT, PhD, MBA, FAPTA, Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, and colleague Yannick Tousingnant-Laflamme, of Sherbrooke University in Canada, received a $50,000 International Mechanical Diagnosis and Treatment Grant to further study the Pain and Disability Drivers Model (PDDM) in a Cervical Population.
The PDDM (pictured above) was created in 2017 when Dr. Tousingnant-Laflamme completed a sabbatical with Dr. Cook at Duke University.
Over the last five years, the researchers have continued collaborating and validating the model in a lumbar population. The funds will support the PhD efforts of Thomas Gérard, a PhD student at Sherbrooke, whose dissertation work has involved the PDDM.