Ashley Plumb

Department
Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences
Biography

Females experience higher prevalence of chronic pain which emerges around the time of puberty suggesting that sex hormones play a role. My laboratory developed an activity-induced musculoskeletal pain model that produces behavioral sex differences in which females develop bilateral pain while males develop unilateral pain. Previously, our laboratory determined that testosterone mediates the behavior phenotype. I am interested in understanding the specific pathways underlying testosterone’s contributions to nociceptive processing which may lead to novel and safer therapies for individuals suffering from chronic pain.

ORCiD

Ashley Plumb
Hometown
Macomb, IL
BS, Psychology, St. Ambrose University