Educational History
University of Miami, The
Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, postdoctoral fellow,
1990-1992
Medical College of Virginia, Ph.D. (Anatomy),
1989
Medical College of Virginia, M.S. (Anatomy),
1987
University of Pittsburgh, B.S. (Physical Therapy),
1981
Professional Membership
American Physical Therapy Association,
1979-present
North Carolina Physical Therapy Association,
1999-present
Teaching
Responsibilities
Histology, Embryology & Tissue Biomechanics (PT303);
Neurological Practice Management I (PT 404); Neurological
Practice Management II (PT 412); Patient/Client Management III
(PT 415)
Clinical
Interests
Neurorehabilitation; rehabilitation of
neurologically impaired adults.
Research
Interests
Functional outcomes of physical therapy
interventions in the elderly and neurologically impaired
individual.
Selected
Publications
Thomas CK, Sesodia S, Erb DE &
Grumbles RM. (2003) Properties of medial gastrocnemius motor
units and muscle fibers reinnervated by embryonic ventral
spinal cord cells. Experimental Neurology 180:25-31.
Thomas CK, Erb DE, Grumbles RM & Bunge RP. (2000)
Embryonic cord transplants in peripheral nerve restore
skeletal muscle function. Journal of Neurophysiology
84(1):591-595.
Erb DE, Mora JR & Bunge RP. (1993) Reinnervation of
adult rat gastrocnemius muscle by embryonic motoneurons
transplanted into the axotomized tibial nerve. Experimental
Neurology 124:372-376.
Povlishock JT, Erb DE & Astruc JA. (1992) The axonal
response to traumatic brain injury: Reactive axonal change,
deafferentation and neuroplasticity. Journal of
Neurotrauma. 9 Suppl. 1:S189-200.
Erb DE & Povlishock JT. (1991) Neuroplasticity
following traumatic brain injury: A study of GABAergic
terminal loss and recovery in the cat dorsal lateral
vestibular nucleus. Experimental Brain Research
83:253-267.
Ellison MD, Erb DI, Kontos HA & Povlishock JT. (1989)
Recovery of impaired endothelium-dependent relaxation
following fluid-percussion brain injury. Stroke
20:911-91.
Erb DE & Povlishock JT. (1988) Axonal damage in severe
traumatic brain injury: An experimental study in the cat.
Acta Neuropathologica 76:347-358.
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