Public Health and Health Professions
Smith Lab
Led by Barbara K Smith · Physical Therapy
What we study
The Smith Lab studies how respiratory muscles adapt to injury or disease, focusing on rehabilitation strategies to improve breathing in patients with conditions like ALS or spinal injury. They validate assessments of respiratory muscle function in patients with neuromuscular diseases.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 3
Current projects
Enhancing rehabilitation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Developing strategies to improve breathing rehabilitation for ALS patients.
Rehabilitation-based approaches to prevent mechanical ventilation-induced breathing dysfunction
Exploring ways to reduce respiratory muscle weakness in patients on mechanical ventilation.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Inspiratory Muscle Training Before Total Joint Arthroplasty to Improve Postoperative Outcomes: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
2026 · JMIR Research Protocols
Plans to test if breathing exercises before joint surgery help people recover faster.
- Leveraging intrinsic non-sinusoidal patterns to infer search behavior to predict exposure to respiratory stressors
2025 · American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Shows how analyzing breathing phase transitions improves detection of hypoxic exposure over traditional methods.
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- Acute Adenosine Receptor Antagonism in Combination With Acute Intermittent Hypoxia to Promote Breathing Plasticity in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Protocol for a Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial
2025 · JMIR Research Protocols
Investigates whether combining AIH with adenosine antagonists can enhance breathing plasticity in ALS patients.
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How to reach out
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