Tasos Karakostas, MPT, MBA, PhD BEng

Associate Director
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab/Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Dr. Karakostas’s professional activities in the field of motion analysis include the design of the Center for Clinical Rehabilitation and Assessment at TTUHSC, which involved setting up a gait evaluation laboratory and a balance assessment laboratory and designing a human performance laboratory, as well as consulting with architects on plans for a motion analysis laboratory at a TTUHSC satellite campus in Amarillo, Texas. In South Carolina, he designed, set up and directed the state-of-the-art motion analysis laboratory of the Medical University of South Carolina as a faculty member of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences. He also designed and co-directed an animal motion analysis laboratory for the Program in Motion, Exercise and Rehabilitation Research at MUSC for translational studies. During his transition from Texas to South Carolina, he did his military service in Greece where he additionally consulted for the development and construction of a new rehabilitation unit at Panarcadian Hospital in Tripoli, Greece. While the primary focus of the work performed is on neuromusculoskeletal disorders, recently he has developed an interest in brain, cognition and lower extremity function.

Presentation(s):

• Effect of Ankle-foot-orthosis on Loading of the Involved and Uninvolved Hip and Knee in Children with Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy 1844

  Thursday, October 30, 2025
  11:00 AM - 11:15 AM