TOPIC: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sport Injury Prevention and Management
Masafumi Terada, Ph.D., ATC
Dr. Terada is the assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University where he holds academic appointments in Faculty of Sport and Health Science. He earned his BS from University of Nebraska at Kearney, and his MS and Ph.D. from the University of Toledo. He also completed post-doctoral training at the University of Kentucky. His primary area of research deals with ankle and knee injuries to reduce the long-term consequences of these conditions over the lifespan. He studies these injuries from a multifactorial perspective using diverse tools ranging from laboratory- based outcome measures of biomechanics and motor control to patient-generated outcome measures. In his career, Dr. Terada has over 30 published and/or in-press peer-reviewed manuscripts in scientific journals and has presented over 60 abstracts at international, national and regional scientific meetings.