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Clinical Associate Professor of Kinesiology, and Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation Director
Pennsylvania State University
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Based on training as a clinician-scientist, and appointment as Director of Sports Medicine Clinical Research at the University’s regional medical campus, Dr. Vairo holds essential skills to function as an investigator within sports medicine. His research agenda incorporates an interdisciplinary approach to sports medicine focusing on health-related quality of life, and human performance in physically active persons. His focal areas of interest include musculoskeletal wellbeing in healthy, injured and post-operative athletic populations as well as the efficacy of sport rehabilitation, and performance enhancement techniques using an evidence-based practice approach. His primary efforts have centered on the prevention, and treatment of prevalent anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in physically active populations. The proceeding sample of publications reflect current trends in the surgical reconstruction of this ligament, and associated objective as well as subjective patient outcomes.
In addition to his work in the area of ACL-related themes, Dr. Vairo has broad secondary interests associated with identifying measurable biophysical markers, and psychophysiological indices that impact health, and human performance in the physically active. Examples of these pursuits range from investigating the efficacy of specified nutritional products on post-exercise recovery to describing the epidemiological profile of neuromusculoskeletal injury in youth-related sports.
