Abstract
Richard Bohannon is Adjunct Professor of Physical Therapy in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Campbell University. He is also the Principal of Physical Therapy Consultants (Fuquay-Varina, NC). Dr. Bohannon is a licensed physical therapist with 40 years of clinical experience in diverse practice settings (acute care, rehabilitation, outpatient, and home-care) working with physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, sociologists, and engineers. He was board certified as a specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy (1999–2009) and is a Fellow of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, the American Physical Therapy Association, the American Society of Neurorehabilitation, and the Gerontological Society of America. He is a prolific writer with over 450 publications in more than 50 different journals to his credit. His work has been cited more than 31,000 times (H Index 80). In 1996 he received the American Physical Therapy Association’s Helen Hislop Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Professional Literature. In 2005 he was awarded the Association’s Marian Williams Award for Research in Physical Therapy and in 2008 he was honored with the Association’s Jules Rothstein Golden Pen Award
for Scientific Writing. Dr. Bohannon serves on numerous editorial boards and reviewed for more than 100 different journals. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of the