Pat Sells

Biography

Dr. Pat Sells received his undergraduate degree at Tennessee Technological University in Physical Education and completed his Master’s degree in adaptive Physical education there as well. After a period of time in the corporate world working for the consulting firm Arthur Anderson, Dr. Sells returned to academia and completed his Doctoral studies at Middle Tennessee State University.

Dr. Sells’ clinical background in exercise physiology includes both Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and exercise testing and prescription in athletes. Dr. Sells is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Clinical Exercise Specialist (CES), as an Advanced Cardiac Life Support provider and is certified as a golf fitness instructor by the Titlist Performance Institute.  Dr. Sells has research interest in a variety of lines, including concussion in youth sports, Blood Flow Restriction, muscle oxygen saturation, movement studies in golf, dance, and plyometric landing. Dr. Sells teaches courses in Human Physiology, Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy, Statistics, Critical Inquiry and Health and Wellness. Dr. Sells is a reviewer for the International Journal of Sports Medicine.

Prior to joining the Physical Therapy Department, Dr. Sells served as the Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His clinical experience includes metabolic testing and rehabilitation with diverse patient populations including; heart transplant recipients, congestive heart failure, COPD, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, obesity, diabetic athletes and children.

Publications and Presentations
"Investigating Neuromuscular Training to Combat Adverse Effects of Acute Fatigue in Collegiate Pivoting Athletes" for the 2020 Combined Sections Meeting (CSM) .  ACCEPTED

Williams, C.L., Dagnan, E., Miner, K.M. and Sells, P. (2018) The Effect of an Animal-Assisted Intervention on Physiological Measures of Stress and Anxiety in Graduate Professional Physical Therapy Students. Open Access Library Journal, 5: e4364.

Jenny Ellison, SPT; Emily Jones, ATC, SPT; Abby Lester, SPT; Kayla Lydon, SPT; Megan Rolfe, ATC, LAT, SPT;, Kevin Robinson, PT, DSc, OCS; Craig Parker, PT, DPT.  Pat Sells, DA, CCES. The use of an inertial motion analysis system to evaluate the kinematics of landing before and after a six-session training intervention focused on proximal hip strengthening, motor control, and lower extremity loading strategies.

“Compliance with ankle-foot orthoses in the neurologic population”. Kelly, Christina; Brown, Renee; Sells, Pat. Submitted to Prosthetics & Orthotics International, October 2017.

Comparing motion capture systems for clinical appropriateness in lower extremity frontal plane  measurements. Megan Philipp SPT, Lauren Beres SPT, Kenneth Jenkins SPT, Connor Norman SPT, Harrison Hall SPT, Patrick Sells, DA, CCES & Dr. Kevin Robinson.  Poster Session Presentation, Combined Sections Meeting, 2017

The relationship between segmental rolling ability and lumbar multifidus activation time. Nicole Clark, PT, DPT, Mike Voight, PT, DPT Sherry Pierce, PT, DPT, Pat Sells, DA, CCES, Ryan Cook, PT, DPT, Clint Henley, PT, DPT Lindsey Schiller, PT, DPT Ashley Campbell, PT, DPT.  International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. JSPT/2017/009779

Examination of Perceived vs. Actual Weight and Height of Full-Time Wheelchair Users. Elise Meade, PT, DPT¹, Renee Brown, PT, PhD², Penny Powers, PT, MS, ATP³, Ginger Devine PT, ATP³, Pat Sells, DA²  Poster Session Presentation, Combined Sections Meeting, 2017

Comparing motion capture systems for clinical appropriateness in lower extremity frontal plane measurements. Megan Philipp SPT, Lauren Beres SPT, Kenneth Jenkins SPT, Connor Norman SPT, Harrison Hall SPT, Patrick Sells, DA, CCES & Dr. Kevin Robinson. 2017 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting

Meyer J, Sells P, Brown RM. Differences in performance on standardized active and passive dynamic visual acuity testing using NeuroCom InVision testing in individuals with vestibular dysfunction: a retrospective study. American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting, Anaheim, CA, Feb 2016

Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise. Chapter 9, Impaired Endurance:  Maintaining Aerobic Capacity and Endurance.  Eds. Voight, Hoogenboom, and Prentice. McGraw Hill, New York, 2013

Melissa Humphres, Cole Sillaman, Craig Parker, Christine Rettig, Peter Jordan, Patrick Sells. Comparison of Electromyographic Activity of Muscles Associated with Elbow Flexion Using Different Resistance Devices. 2013 American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting