Oscar Vila Dieguez

Oscar Vila-Dieguez, PT, PhD is a physical therapist and postdoctoral fellow in the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. His research focuses on patient characteristics that may lead to a positive or negative outcome to physical therapy interventions, primarily exercise. These characteristics include muscle-tendon morphology and biology, neuromuscular and biomechanical factors, psychological factors and systemic disease. His research is supported by the Foundation for Physical Therapy Research and the American and International Societies of Biomechanics. Oscar has published his research in peer-reviewed journals and presented his research at the national and international levels.