Kathleen Sluka

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Graduate Program, University of Iowa, United States of America

Kathleen Sluka

Academic positions:
- Professor, Graduate Program in Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science
- Director, Neurophysiology of pain lab

Any industry positions (last five years):
I am (or have been in the past 5 years) a Consultant for Medtronic, Merck and Amgen. I have (or have had in the past five years) a research grant from Pfizer, Healthonics and EMPI, Inc. I hold stocks in Eli Lilly, Inc.

Research interests:
Dr Sluka's research focuses on the spinal cord mechanisms involving the control of musculoskeletal pain. Her group use animal models of acute and chronic musculuskeletal pain that produce behavioral signs such as limping and guarding of the limb and an increased response to heat or mechanical stimuli, hyperalgesia. Her laboratory is particularly interested in the intracellular pathways and ion channels in chronic musculoskeletal pain. Experimental approaches include measuring behavioral responses to noxious stimuli (hyperalgesia), recording activity of dorsal horn neurons, measuring release of neurotransmitters (microdialysis/push-pull perfusion and HPLC), and anatomical localization of mediators of hyperalgesia (immunohistochemistry).

Any other information:
Memberships:
APTA, American Pain Society, International Association for the Study of Pain, Society for Neuroscience

Manuscript reviewer for:
Journal of Neurochemistry, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience Methods , Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy, Anesthesiology, American Journal of Physiology, Pain, Physiotherapy Research International, Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics, Somatosensory and Motor Research, Journal of Pain, European Journal of Pain

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology > Musculoskeletal Pain & Analgesia (since 16 November 2005)

Kathleen Sluka is a Section Head for Musculoskeletal Pain & Analgesia, part of the RHEUMATOLOGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/physicaltherapy/faculty/index.htm

All recent recommendations

• 4.8
  Effect of two contrasting types of physical exercise on chronic neck muscle pain.
  Recommended by Marie Hoeger Bement, Kathleen Sluka with Josimari DeSantana
  
• 6.0
  Clinical implications of rotator cuff degeneration in the rheumatic shoulder.
  Recommended by Kathleen Sluka with Josimari DeSantana
  
• 3.0
  An investigation into the effect of electrode placement of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on experimentally induced ischemic pain in healthy human participants.
  Recommended by Kathleen Sluka with Josimari DeSantana
  
• 6.0
  Efficacy of electrical nerve stimulation for chronic musculoskeletal pain: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
  Recommended by Kathleen Sluka with Josimari DeSantana