Winter 2016 Research Update
By: Derek Rutherford, PhD, PT
From students to faculty, the research productively here in the School of Physiotherapy has been well paced over the past few months. We have had four MSc Rehabilitation Research thesis defences, one Physiotherapy student research group submit their work to the Physiotherapy Research Foundation's Ann Collins Whitmore Competition and a host of Student and Faculty publications and abstract acceptances to scientific conferences. You will find information pertaining to these successes below.
MSc Rehabilitation Research
Thesis Defenses
Ross Story (MSc RR – supervisor: Dr. Shaun Boe)
Title: Using Machine Learning to Improve Motor Imagery Neurofeedback
Peter Stillwell (MSc RR – Supervisor: Dr. Katherine Harman)
Title: Barriers and Facilitators to Prescribed Exercise Adherence in Chiropractic Patients with Non-Specific Chronic Low Back Pain: A Focused Ethnography
Kristen Osterling (MSc RR – Supervisor: Dr. Gail Dechman)
Title: Establishing Accessory Muscle Activation in Healthy Individuals during a Graded Exercise Test
Aishwarya Kamat (MSc RR – Supervisor: Dr. Cheryl Hubley-Kozey)
Title: Determining the Association Between Knee Muscle Strength and Varus Thrust in Knee Osteoarthritis
Physiotherapy Student Research
Caitlyn Dunphy, Adam Lomond and Sarah Casey have submitted their MScPT research to the 2016 Physiotherapy Research Foundation Ann Collins Whitmore Student Competition. The Physiotherapy Research Foundation holds this competition each year in preparation for Congress, where each entry level physiotherapy program in Canada can submit one student paper. This is the first entry from Dalhousie University since the entry level MScPT program began. Way to go!!
Dunphy C., Casey, S., Lomond, A., The effect of a contralateral pelvic drop during gait on knee adduction moment of asymptomatic individuals. Supervisor: Dr. Derek Rutherford
Faculty Publications
Ingram T G J, Kraeutner S N, Solomon J P, Westwood D A, Boe S G. Skill acquisition via motor imagery relies on both motor and perceptual learning. Behav Neurosci, 2015 (In-Press).
Kraeutner S, Keeler L, Boe S. Motor imagery-based skill acquisition disrupted following rTMS of the inferior parietal lobule. Exp Brain Res, 2015 (In-Press).
Solomon J, Boe S, Bardouille T. Reliability for non-invasive somatosensory cortex localization: implications for pre-surgical mapping. Clin Neurol and Neurosurg, 2015 (In-Press).
Kraeutner S, MacKenzie L, Westwood D, Boe S. Characterising skill acquisition through motor imagery with no prior physical practice: J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 2015 (In-Press).
Rutherford, D.J., Moreside, J.M., Wong, I. Hip joint motion and gluteal muscle activation differences between healthy controls and those with varying degrees of hip osteoarthritis during walking. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology. 2015, 25, 944-950.
Conference abstracts published and submitted
Boe S, Fleet A, Eskes G, MacDonald A, Phillips S, Gubitz G (2015). Feasibility and effectiveness of modified constraint induced movement therapy in acute stroke rehabilitation. Canadian Stroke Congress, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Baker, M., Stanish, W., Rutherford, D. Walking challenges in moderate Knee Osteoarthritis: A biomechanical response to medial/lateral walkway surface perturbations. Osteoarthritis Research Society International World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 31st – April 3rd , 2016
Rutherford, D. Baker, M., Stanish, W. Muscle activation responses to medial and lateral walkway perturbations during gait in individuals with moderate knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis Research Society International World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 31st – April 3rd , 2016
Robbins S, Rutherford D, Hubley-Kozey C. Differences in knee mechanics and muscle activation during gait between non-traumatic and post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis. Young Investigators Forum, Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis, Kananaskis, Alberta October, 2015