Rick Celebrini
Rick Celebrini, PT |
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PROFILE
I completed my physical therapy education in 1992 at UBC. I am a sports and orthopaedic Physical Therapist registered in BC. I am currently completing my PhD program in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC).
Contact: celebrini@telus.net 604-808-1212
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research focus is on sports injury prevention in general, and anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACL) prevention specifically. My doctoral work has focused on a biomechanical evaluation of joint forces, positions, and muscle activity in adolescent female soccer players randomized to a conventional soccer warm-up or a novel warm-up, incorporating proximal to distal movement strategies, in order to improve movements at risk of contributing to ACL injury. This study was funded by BC Medical Services Foundation.
From 2004 – 2005, I was part of a CIHR funded development grant led by Dr’s John Esdaile and Matt Liang of the Arthritis Research Centre to evaluate an intervention strategy to prevent knee injury in youth soccer players. I have also completed a survey of soccer injuries affecting adolescent players in the lower mainland of BC. This project was funded by the Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada.
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I have been a therapist and consultant with the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, the Canadian Soccer Association, the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, and the NHL Players Association. I have been to two Olympic games as a physiotherapist and the Pan-Am games as an athlete. I was a national and professional level soccer player. I am the sport science director for the BC Soccer Association and a co-founder of AMRC - Athletic Movement Retraining and Conditioning program. I have been chosen to be the chief therapist for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Second World Congress of Sports Injury Prevention, June 2008, Tromsø, Norway, podium presentation. “Agreement and validity of observational risk screening guidelines in evaluating ACL injury risk factors” C Ekegren, RG Celebrini, DL MacIntyre, JJ Eng, WC Miller.
Second World Congress of Sports Injury Prevention, June 2008, Tromsø, Norway, poster presentation. “The effect of a novel movement strategy in decreasing ACL injury risk factors in female adolescent soccer players” RG Celebrini, JJ Eng, C. Ekegren, WC Miller, JD Johnston, DL MacIntyre.
First World Congress on Sports Injury Prevention, June 2005, Oslo Norway , poster presentation. "Muscle length-dependent increases in strength after progressive eccentric-biased training" TJ Allen, RG Celebrini, DL MacIntyre.
Sports Physiotherapy Australia - 2nd Biennial Conference, February 2005, Adelaide Australia, poster presentation. "Techniques for assessment of hamstring muscles and their adaptation to an eccentric training program" TJ Allen, RG Celebrini, DL MacIntyre.
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CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Celebrini, RG, Allen, TJ, MacIntyre, DL “A description of lumbo-pelvic
control: its role in eccentric control of the hamstrings muscles.”
World Congress of Physical Therapy, June 2007, Vancouver, BC.Celebrini, RG, MacIntyre, DL “Survey of severe knee injury in adolescent soccer players: a pilot study.” World Congress of Physical Therapy, June 2007, Vancouver, BC.
Allen, TJ, Celebrini, RG, MacIntyre, DL. Muscle length-dependent increases in strength after progressive eccentric-biased training. Br J Sports Med, 39(6): 363, 2005.
TopCURRENT FUNDING
I am currently funded as a Strategic Training Fellow in Rehabilitation Research from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and through a PhD Tuition Award from UBC.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Rick Celebrini, Bill Miller, Christina Ekegren, Joy C MacDermid, Donna MacIntyre “Linking outcomes measured in clinical trials evaluating exercise following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction to the ICF framework: a systematic review”. Submitted to Physical Therapy, under revision.
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