By Ann Blackford

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 8, 2017) - Each year during the month of May, speech-language pathologists and audiologists raise awareness about people with communication disorders and ways to improve their quality of life. This includes people with a variety of communication challenges, which can affect speech, language, voice, hearing, problem solving and other communicative functions. Communication may seem automatic, but for people with communication disorders, it can require extra assistance and hard work.

By Olivia Ramirez and Kody Kiser

LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 8, 2017) – The most exciting two minutes in sports brings horses, jockeys, celebrities and more from across the country and around the world to Louisville, Kentucky, every year. While reporters and guests focus on big hats, bow ties, silks and mint juleps, researchers at the University of Kentucky are interested in injuries.

LEXINGTON, KY. (Jan. 6, 2017) – Equestrian sports contributes to the highest percentage of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in sports, based on findings in the National Trauma Databank. Multiple concussions and head trauma can have long-term consequences, including acute injuries and neurodegenerative diseases.

The son of a coach and athletic director, Dr. Scott Lephart turned his passion for athletics into a career in Sports Medicine. "Today making significant strides in the way that we prevent injuries, in the way that we diagnose and care for and return not only our athletes in Sports but the ability to exercise over the of the course of a life."  

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By Linda B. Blackford - lblackford@herald-leader.com

The University of Kentucky's College of Health Sciences has received a $4.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to research injury prevention in U.S. Special Forces.

The grant will work in concert with the new UK Sports Science Research Institute, which will be housed in Health Sciences.

The institute will be funded with $3 million, most of which will come from UK HealthCare with some support from UK Athletics.

By Bruce Schreiner, The Associated Press

University of Kentucky researchers secured a $4.2 million grant Monday to look for ways to prevent training injuries among elite U.S. military members. It's part of a new campus initiative to reduce injuries from athletic fields to military training fields.

By Laura Dawahare, Melanie Sparks, Allison Perry