Research
Our team is striving to improve and expand our clinical care through the projects below.
Current Research Projects
Row to Grow
A pilot community-based rowing program for adolescents with cerebral palsy. We quantify their movements for rowing and walking before and after a 3 month learn to row program.
Return2Sport
The Motion Lab is working with Dr. Calvin Kuo from the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering to develop phone-based applications that are able to measure movement similarly to how we capture movement data in the lab. This work has been funded by a 5-year CIHR Project grant. Phone-based movement analysis will enable a new frontier of real world data that will allow us to serve the needs of our patients more effectively by understanding how they move when outside our lab! In particular, we are focused on youth who have experienced an ACL injury and are looking to return to sport; we are aiming to reduce the likelihood of re-injury by better understanding what movements put them at risk.
Myofascial Pain Release
Collaboration with the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team (PART) at BC Children’s Hospital, to quantify a novel intervention for chronic pain in children and youth.
THEIA Markerless
Collaboration with Theia to compare their markerless motion capture system to our traditional marker-based system. We presented a tutorial at the 2022 GCMAS conference.
Past Research Projects
Quality of Motion
Investigating the effects of coaching and video feedback on children and youth’s quality of motion during the performance of sporting maneuvers.
Powered KAFO
Collaborating with Bionic Power for a pilot study on their novel exoskeleton device, the Agilik. This powered knee-ankle-foot orthotic may help children with crouch gait.
Interactive Tech
Evaluating the kinematic accuracy of Sunny Hill Health Centre’s new rehabilitative technology that uses markerless motion capture and virtual reality devices.
Clubfoot Study
Monitoring the long-term outcome of using the Ponsetti method to treat clubfoot: injecting Botulinum Toxin A into the tricep surae muscle complex of the leg to the Achilles tenotomy.
Prosthetic Insole
Collaboration with Dr. Cooper and the Digital Lab to quantify the intervention of a customized prosthetic insole for children with fibular hemimelia.
Split Tib Post Transfer
Determining if routing of the split tendon transfer through the interosseous membrane improves ankle dorsiflexion in swing compared to routing posterior to the fibula.
Leg Length Discrepancy
Collaboration with Dr. Cooper to compare the LLD measurements between EOS scans, manual physiotherapist assessment, and motion capture technology.
