Research

Members of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Queen’s University are involved with and collaborate in various research projects. The following list exemplifies some recent and ongoing projects:

• Does Mental Practice Promote Cortical Reorganization and Improved Hand Function in Acute Stroke?
• Qualitative Assessment of Proximal Joints of the Upper Extremity in Chronic Stroke Subjects
• Robotic assessment of Spasticity in the Upper Extremity of Stroke Patients
• Preventing Chronic Disability: A Subacute Cognitive-Behavioural Disability Management Program for Occupational Injuries of the Lower Back
• Development of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessing Human Spinal Cord Injuries
• Closing the Demand Gap in Health and Healthcare
• Benefits of supervised exercise programs
• Synthesis of the Literature Scan to Integrate Rehabilitation Services into Primary Health Care Settings
  - Primary Health Care for Persons with Spinal Cord Injuries in Ontario
  - Models of Primary Care for Disabled Populations
• Developing Physical Activity Recommendations And Interventions For People With Spinal Cord Injury - Determining The Prevalence And Health Benefits Of Physical Activity In SCI
• Experiences of Factors affecting Activities and Participation in Persons with Disability
• Intercultural Continuing Professional Education - the Learner Perspective
• Wheels Project - comparing pediatric wheelchairs for low-resource settings