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Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD

@drandrewcsmith.bsky.social
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Faculty at University of Colorado PT Program, PM&R Department. Rehabilitation scientist whose interests include physical therapy, spinal cord injury, imaging, neuroscience. www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-program…

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cuphysmed.bsky.social @cuphysmed.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
#Newpub in Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil. by Drs. Connor, Thornton, Tefertiller, @drandrewcsmith.bsky.social & team on Reliability of SCIseg Automated Measurement of Midsagittal Tissue Bridges in #SpinalCordInjuries Using an External Dataset. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40585009/
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Reliability of SCIseg Automated Measurement of Midsagittal Tissue Bridges in Spinal Cord Injuries Using an External Dataset - PubMed
Measurements of midsagittal tissue bridges between manual and automated raters are reliable. Automated measurements may help to expedite research related to midsagittal tissue bridges and functional o...
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Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD @drandrewcsmith.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great to see 2nd year CU Rehab Science PhD student Jordan Connor's first first-author paper out in the wild! meridian.allenpress.com/tscir/articl... @wesleythorntonpt.bsky.social @drkenweber.bsky.social
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Reliability of SCIseg Automated Measurement of Midsagittal Tissue Bridges in Spinal Cord Injuries Using an External Dataset
Objectives:. To determine the interrater reliability between an automated and manual measure of lesion damage following spinal cord injury (SCI) using T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (MRI).Metho...
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Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD @drandrewcsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please join me in congratulating Dr. @wesleythorntonpt.bsky.social for successfully defending his PhD dissertation today! @cumedicalschool.bsky.social @cuphysmed.bsky.social
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cuphysmed.bsky.social @cuphysmed.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
#Newpub in Sci Rep. by @cuphysmed.bsky.social faculty Drs. @drandrewcsmith.bsky.social, Stephanie Ryder, George Marzloff & team on Intermittent hypoxia-induced enhancements in #corticospinal excitability predict gains in #motorlearning and #metabolicefficiency. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39994358/
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Intermittent hypoxia-induced enhancements in corticospinal excitability predict gains in motor learning and metabolic efficiency - PubMed
Acute intermittent hypoxia (AIH) enhances human motor function after incomplete spinal cord injury. Although the underlying mechanisms in humans are unknown, emerging evidence indicates that AIH facil...
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cuphysmed.bsky.social @cuphysmed.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
CU PM&R is excited to welcome our Grand Rounds speaker this evening, Dr. Daniel Corcos. Dr. Corcos joins us from Northwestern University, where he is a Professor of Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences. Dr. Corcos is presenting on "Exercise in Parkinson’s Disease." #physiatry #physicaltherapy
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Andrew C. Smith, PT, DPT, PhD @drandrewcsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Very happy to this published! This project was led by @drkenweber.bsky.social, including @wesleythorntonpt.bsky.social and colleagues. We developed an automated method to extract markers of leg muscle health from MRI. Read free here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Leg Muscle Volume, Intramuscular Fat and Force Generation: Insights From a Computer‐Vision Model and Fat‐Water MRI
Background Maintaining skeletal muscle health (i.e., muscle size and quality) is crucial for preserving mobility. Decreases in lower limb muscle volume and increased intramuscular fat (IMF) are comm...
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