Rate My Professor Ryan Monti

Monti's research specializations and academic interests include upper extremity conditions, overhead athletes, injury prevention and reduction programs, and baseball-related topics, with an emphasis on pediatric and adolescent sports populations. Key peer-reviewed publications co-authored during his affiliation with Walsh University include "The Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic Shoulder & Elbow Score used as a patient-reported outcome measure for the youth and high school aged baseball athlete" (International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, 2022; with A. Fernandez-Fernandez), "Stride length and torso biomechanics as they relate to medial elbow injuries in adolescent aged baseball pitchers: a clinical commentary" (IJSPT, 2022; with Z. Dietz et al.), and "An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury risk screening and reduction program for high school female athletes: a pilot study" (IJSPT, 2022; with A. Kuntz et al.). He also authored "Return to hitting: an interval hitting progression and overview of hitting mechanics following injury" (IJSPT, 2015) and "Instructional Technology in Physical Therapy Education" (Distance Learning, 2019). Monti contributed chapters to O’Sullivan & Siegelman’s PTA Examination Review & Study Guide (7th Edition, 2024), including on musculoskeletal physical therapy, teaching and learning, and research and evidence-based practice. His influence in the field is evidenced by presentations such as posters at the American Physical Therapy Association Combined Sections Meeting (San Antonio, 2022) on the Kerlan-Jobe score in youth baseball athletes and at the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, 2022) on lead shoulder post-operative stabilization and return to baseball hitting. At Walsh University, he delivered a faculty presentation at the DPT Research Symposium on patient-reported outcome measures for youth and high school baseball athletes and advised a senior honors thesis on surface electromyography examination of quadriceps and hamstrings muscle coactivation in collegiate athletes (Spring 2023).