Marquette University: Physical therapy professor receives $1.7 million NIH grant to study exercise capacity in stroke survivors

MILWAUKEE — Dr. Allison Hyngstrom, chair and professor of physical therapy in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has been awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study causes and solutions for decreased exercise capacity in stroke survivors.  The project will study the reduced activation of skeletal muscle in the weakened legs of stroke survivors. R...