Michael Voight

Biography

Dr. Michael Voight has had a distinguished career as both an educator and clinical physical therapist for over 30 years. Throughout his career he has not only become one of the leading authorities in the rehabilitation of orthopedic and sports injuries, he has worked tirelessly to advance the knowledge of others as a clinician and educator by making significant contributions to the literature. Dr. Voight received his undergraduate training at the University of Oregon and Portland State University in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. From there, he traveled to the University of Virginia and received his master's degree in education with an emphasis in sports medicine. Physical therapy school followed at Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia. In 1987, Dr. Voight became one of the nation’s first board certified clinical specialist in Sports Physical Therapy, and in 1994 he received his board certification of advanced clinical competence in orthopedic physical therapy making him one of the nation’s first two-board certified specialists in the Unites States. He has been recertified in both specialty areas several times. In 1995, Dr. Voight received one of the nation’s first doctoral degrees in physical therapy when he was awarded a Doctorate of Health Science from the University of St. Augustine. Dr. Voight is also recognized as a Certified Athletic Trainer and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist.

Dr. Voight is a tenured professor with Belmont University’s School of Physical Therapy in Nashville TN teaching the orthopaedic assessment and manual therapy coursework along with emergency management – first responder training. He also holds a position of Adjunct Associate Professor in the Vanderbilt School of Medicine – Department of Orthopedics where he is the Co-Director of the Vanderbilt/Belmont Sports Physical Therapy Residency program.  Dr. Voight is recognized as a clinician of the highest caliber, and has worked with a number of high-profile athletic organizations.  Throughout his career, Dr. Voight has served as a Team Physical Therapist for teams in both the NFL and NBA.  In addition, Dr. Voight has consulted with various teams in MLB, NHL and the MLS. Early in his career he became active within the United States Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine Division. He has worked at the Olympic Training Center, Olympic Festivals, Pan Am Games, Olympic Games, and has had the opportunity to travel to almost all of the different continents with various Olympic and national teams. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Voight still maintains a clinical practice at the Nashville Sportsmedicine/Nashville Hip Institute, specializing in orthopedic and sports related injuries particularly with PGA tour players and other professional athletes. His role with the advisory board of the Titlist Performance Institute allows him to consult on the prevention, evaluation, and treatment of golf injuries with many noted golf professionals. 

Throughout his career, Dr. Voight has been very active in developing clinical functional movement assessments for both prevention of injury and evaluation of injury. These clinical systems are recognized internationally as one standard for evaluating movement.  As one of the co-founders of the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA), his passion for assessing and training the human movement system continues to evolve. He was recently appointed by the APTA Board of Directors to the APTA movement system task force. In this role, Dr. Voight has worked with the task force and APTA to further define the human movement system and develop a framework for promoting and integrating the concept of the human movement system into physical therapy practice, education, and research. Most of his research interests have centered on movement related topics.

In addition to academic and clinical practice, Dr. Voight has also been extremely active within the field of Sports Physical Therapy.  Throughout his career, Dr. Voight has been appointed to a variety of committees and has served four elected terms on the Executive Board of the Sports Physical Therapy Section of APTA. In his last elected position, Dr. Voight served in the capacity of President of the SPTS. Internationally, Dr. Voight was elected to the Executive Board of the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy-WCPT and served two terms on the board working closely with the scientific congress committee, the IOC medical commission and assisted in the development of worldwide educational standards for sports physical therapy. He is also member of the National Athletic Training Association; the American College of Sportsmedicine; the National Strength Coaches Association; the United States Olympic Sportsmedicine Society; the International Federation of Sportsmedicine; the International Society for Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopedic Sportsmedicine; the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy; the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy, and the prestigious American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr. Voight has lectured extensively at various conferences, symposiums, and congresses both nationally and internationally having given over 900 professional presentations on a variety of orthopedic and sports medicine topics. Dr Voight holds a senior teaching position for the North American Institute of Sports Physical Therapy (www.rehabeducation.com) continuing education division. Dr. Voight is a principle reviewer for the prestigious American Journal of Sports Medicine and actively resides on the editorial boards of several different journals. He played an instrumental role in the development of the North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. He has authored over 80 papers, textbook chapters on various topics, and has written three textbooks on functional exercise. During his career, he has been award the Distinguished Educator Award from the Sports Physical Therapy Section three times making him the only person to have been presented this award multiple times and in 2010 he was presented with the inaugural SPTS “Lifetime Excellence in Education Award”. Additionally, he has been awarded the Tennessee Educator of the tear twice. 

Dr. Voight is a clinician, educator, and researcher who is regarded by his peers as one of the leading musculoskeletal physical therapists in the world. In 1997, he was presented the Sports Physical Therapy Section’s (SPTS) distinguished service award for his dedication to service. In 2008, he was presented the President’s award for his career of service to the SPTS and was also presented the prestigious Ron Peyton award for career achievement. In 2010, Dr. Voight was elected into the SPTS Hall of Fame for a lifetime of excellence in sports physical therapy. His many accomplishments were again validated in 2011 when the American Physical Therapy Association presented Dr. Voight with their highest honor, naming him a Fellow of the APTA. Outside of the APTA, Dr Voight was elected into the inaugural Hall of Fame class from the Titlist Performance Institute. In addition to being active within the field of physical therapy, Dr. Voight is an active member in numerous medical societies (AOSSM, ISHA, ESSKA, ISAKOS, ISHA) and was one of the founding members of the ICCUS Society. He remains extremely active in patient care, education, and research activities and his lectures are both well attended and receive excellent reviews based upon his innovative presentation of the scientific evidence and the interactive fun approach to teaching.

Recent Scholarship

Publications
Paine R, Voight ML:  The role of the scapula.  Int J Sports PT  8(5):617-629, 2013.

Cook G, Burton L, Hoogenboom BJ, Voight ML:  Functional Movement Screening:  The use of the fundamental movements as an assessment of function – Part 1.  Int J Sports PT 9(3): 396-409, 2014

Cook G, Burton L, Hoogenboom BJ, Voight ML:  Functional Movement Screening:  The use of the fundamental movements as an assessment of function – Part 2.  Int J Sports PT 9(4): 549-563, 2014

Rose G, Cheetham P, Voight ML:  Golf Swing Efficiency – A Biomechanical Approach.  In:  Becker L, Manske R (Eds):  Management of the golfing athlete throughout the lifespan.  SPTS Home Study Course, 2015

Hoogenboom BJ, Voight ML:  Rolling Revisited:  Using Rolling to assess and treat neuromuscular control and coordination of the core and extremities of athletes.  Int Journal Sports PT  10(8):787- 802, 2015.

Page P, Hoogenboom B, Voight ML:  Improving the reporting of therapeutic exercise interventions in rehabilitation research.  Int Journal Sports PT  12(2):297-304, 2017.

Saladin L, Voight M:  Introduction to the movement system as the foundation for physical therapist  practice, education, and research. Int Journal Sports PT 12(6):858-861, 2017.

Clark N, Voight ML, Campbell A, Pierce S, Sells P, Cook R, Henley C, Schiller L:  The relationship between segmental rolling and lumbar multifidus activation time.  Int Journal Sports PT 12(6):  921-930, 2017.

Voight M, Page P, Chidester M, Hardiek L, Macko S, Sexton Z, Sells P:  The impact of hip abduction elastic-resistance neuromuscular feedback on frontal plane knee kinematics in female volleyball athletes.  J of Performance Health Res 1(2):  23-30, 2017.

Notable Presentations
Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Moscow, Russia / August 2013.

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Park City, UT / August 2014.

Lecturer – World Golf Fitness Summit:  Evaluation and treatment of hip dysfunction in golfers, Oceanside, CA / October, 2014.

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Vancouver, BC Canada/ August 2015.

Keynote Lecturer – International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Meeting, Cambridge, UK  / September 2015.

Invited Lecturer – First World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy – Return to Play, Bern, Switzerland / November 2015.

Lecturer – APTA Annual NEXT Conference – Human Movement System, Nashville, TN / June 2016.

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark / July 2016.

Lecturer – International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA  / September 2016.

Lecturer – APTA Movement System Summit, Alexandria, VA / December, 2016

Lecturer – APTA Annual NEXT Conference – Human Movement System, Boston, MA / June 2017.   

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Kona  HW / August 2017.

Lecturer - International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Meeting, Santiago, Chile / October 2017.

Lecturer – Orthopedic Summit, Las Vegas, NV / December 2017

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, New Orleans, LA / July 2018.

Lecturer – Sports Hip 18, Warwick, UK / July 2018

Roundtable Participate – Warwick Consensus Panel:  FAI Rehabilitation, Warwick, UK / July 2018

Lecturer - International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia / October 2018.

Research Poster:  Voight ML, Campbell A, Bardowski B:  Arthrogenic neuromuscular inhibition:  The Effect of Ultrasound guided intra-articular injection of anesthetic on hip strength – ISHA Annual Meeting – 2019 Melbourne Australia.

Research Poster:  Voight ML, Smith S, Davis J, Tapp R, Lester C:  Hip Rotational Range of Motion in PGA Tour Golfers – TPTA Annual Meeting Poster Presentation – 2018

Lecturer – Orthopedic Summit, Las Vegas, NV / December 2018

Lecturer/Research Jury Panelist – Scandinavian Sports Medicine Congress 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark / February 2019.

Lecturer – Tennessee Physical Therapy Association, Nashville, TN / April 2019.

Lecturer - 2019 XVIII Airborne Corps Human Performance Optimization Symposium, Fort Bragg, NC / May 2019.

Lecturer – APTA Annual NEXT Conference – Human Movement System in Professional Sports, Chicago, IL / June 2019.   

Lecturer – Hygenics/Performance Health TRAK Research Symposium, Dublin, Ireland / July 2018.

Lecturer - International Society for Hip Arthroscopy Annual Meeting, Madrid Spain / October 2019.

Lecturer – Orthopedic Summit, Las Vegas, NV / December 2019