Tasos Karakostas, MPT, PhD

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My Lab

This lab offers this sophisticated gait assessment through the use of specialized cameras, computer technology captures and measures muscle activity.

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About Me

Dr. Karakostas’s professional activities in the field of motion analysis include the design of the Center for Clinical Rehabilitation and Assessment at TTUHSC, which involved setting up a gait evaluation laboratory and a balance assessment laboratory and designing a human performance laboratory, as well as consulting with architects on plans for a motion analysis laboratory at a TTUHSC satellite campus in Amarillo, Texas. In South Carolina, he designed, set up and directed the state-of-the-art motion analysis laboratory of the Medical University of South Carolina as a faculty member of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. He also designed and co-directed an animal motion analysis laboratory for the Program in Motion, Exercise and Rehabilitation Research at MUSC for translational studies. During his transition from Texas to South Carolina, he did his military service in Greece where he additionally consulted for the development and construction of a new rehabilitation unit at Panarcadian Hospital in Tripoli, Greece. While the primary focus of the work performed is on neuromusculoskeletal disorders, recently he has developed an interest in brain, cognition and lower extremity function.

Location

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

355 East Erie

Chicago, IL 60611

Education & Training

Education

1991 – 1993

Biomechanics (MSc), Michigan State University

1993 – 2001

Engineering (PhD), Ohio State University

2000 – 2003

Physical Therapy (MPT), Texas Tech University

Featured Research

Assessment of the Spastic Upper Limb with Computational Motion Analysis.

Hand clinics

doi: 10.1016/j.hcl.2018.06.002

Karakostas T,
Watters K,
King EC

Recent Publications

Hip Power and "Stiff Knee" Gait: A Tool for Identifying Appropriate Candidates for Rectus Transfer.

Moreira BL, Karakostas T, Dias LS

Journal of pediatric orthopedics

doi: 10.1097/BPO.0000000000001220

Stabilization of Cr-rich tannery waste in fly ash matrices.

Daniil A, Dimitrakopulos GP, Varitis S, Vourlias G, Kaimakamis G, Pantazopoulou E, Pavlidou E, Zouboulis AI, Karakostas T, Komninou P

Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA

doi: 10.1177/0734242X18775488

Honors & Awards

National Fellowship in Bioengineering
Science and Engineering Research Council (Scotland, UK), 1988 - 1991
Faculty departmental honorary fellowship
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 2000 - 2003
Best paper award
National Association of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers, 2008
Best paper award
American Academy of Orthotists & Prosthetists, 2015

Director, Clinical Gait Evaluation Program
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 2001 - 2003
Director, Instrumented Human Motion Analysis Program
Medical University of South Carolina, 2006 - 2008
Director, Gait and Motion Analysis Program
Departments of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2009 - 2011

Professional Affiliations

Member
Gait & Clinical Motion Analysis Society, 2009
Member
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993
Member
Society For Neuroscience, 2010
Member
American Physical Therapy Association, 2000 - 2010

Member
American Accademy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, 2009 - 2012
Student Member
Amercian Society of Biomechanics, 1993 - 2000

Research Interests

Gait Analysis
Neuromusculoskeletal Diseases and Gait
Neurodegenerative Diseases and Gait
Motion Analysis of animals and humans

Selected Grants

National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research
R01 H133E30009, 1993 - 1998
Department of Human Health Services/Adiminstration on Aging
90AM2378, 2000 - 2002
National Institute of Aging
RO1 AG12122, 2006 - 2011
South Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund
2005 - 2009