Exercise Sciences

Rike Mitchell
PhD, MsPT, MTC
EXERCISE SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF
College of Health and Human Performance

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Courses: EXSC 400, EXSC 460,
Office: 268 SFH
Phone: 801-422-3344
E-mail: rike_mitchell@byu.edu

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Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise:

• Physical Therapy, Manual Therapy, Orthopedics, Balance, Anatomy

Research:

• Physical Therapy Treatment and Outcomes (manual therapy, PNF, flexibility)

Education:

• BA (equivalent), FRENCH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, GERMANY, 1984
• BS (equivalent), PHYSICAL THERAPY, KRANKENGYMNASTIKSCHULE HESSISCH LICHTENAU, GERMANY, 1987
• MS PHYSICAL THERAPY, UNIVERSITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES, FLORIDA, 2000
• PHD EXERCISE SCIENCE, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, 2005

Publications:

• Mitchell UH, Wooden MJ, McKeough DM. (2001). The short-term effect of lumbar positional distraction. The Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy 9(4), 213-221
• Mitchell UH, Myrer JW, Hopkins JT, Hunter I, Feland JB, Hilton S. Reciprocal inhibition, successive inhibition, autogenic inhibition, or stretch perception alteration: why do PNF stretches work? (Abstract) Proceedings of the American College of Sports Medicine 53^rd Annual Meeting
• Mitchell UH, Myrer JW, Hopkins JT, Hunter I, Feland JB, Hilton S. (2007) Acute stretch perception alteration contributes to the success of the PNF “contract-relax” stretch. Journal of Sports Rehabilitation 16, 85-92
• Mitchell UH, Myrer JW, Hopkins JT, Hunter I, Hilton S, Feland JB, (accepted for publication) Neurophysiological reflex mechanisms do not contribute to the success of PNF stretches. Journal of Sports Rehabilitation

PRESENTATIONS:

• Utah Physical Therapy Association Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, September 24, 2005:
  “Autogenic Inhibition or Stretch Tolerance Alteration: why does the PNF Stretch Contract-Relax Work?”

• American College of Sports Medicine, 53^rd Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, June 3, 2006: “Reciprocal Inhibition, Successive Inhibition, Autogenic Inhibition, or Stretch Perception Alteration: Why do PNF Stretches Work?”

CREDENTIALS:

• January 1997: Manual Therapist; Certified by the Institute of Physical Therapy, St. Augustine, Florida.
• May 1994; McKenzie Credentialed Therapist, The McKenzie Institute, U.S.A. Center for Post-Graduate Study in Spinal Mechanical Therapy.

Teaching

• 2001 to 2006 Anatomy (cadaver) lab and Functional Anatomy lecture class at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
• March 2005 ‘MS 613.2 Clinical Exercise Physiology’ at Rocky Mountain University, Provo, Utah
• 2006 to current On-line class “Spinal Instability” for the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, St. Augustine, FL

Languages

• German
• French

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