{"id":320,"date":"2023-03-17T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcchrmicro.wpengine.com\/?page_id=320"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:30:35","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bcchr.ca\/motion-lab\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research<\/h1>

Learn more about our research.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our team is striving to improve and expand our clinical care through the projects below.<\/p>

Current Research Projects<\/h2>
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Row to Grow<\/h3>

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.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Return2Sport<\/h3>

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.
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Myofascial Pain Release<\/h3>

Collaboration with the\u00a0Pediatric Anesthesia Research Team (PART)<\/a>\u00a0at BC Children’s Hospital, to quantify a novel intervention for chronic pain in children and youth.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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THEIA Markerless<\/h3>

Collaboration with\u00a0Theia<\/a>\u00a0to compare their markerless motion capture system to our traditional marker-based system. We presented a tutorial at the 2022 GCMAS conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Past Research Projects<\/h2>
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Quality of Motion<\/h3>

Investigating the effects of coaching and video feedback on children and youth’s quality of motion during the performance of sporting maneuvers.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Powered KAFO<\/h3>

Collaborating with\u00a0Bionic Power<\/a>\u00a0for a pilot study on their novel exoskeleton device, the Agilik. This powered knee-ankle-foot orthotic may help children with crouch gait.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Interactive Tech<\/h3>

Evaluating the kinematic accuracy of Sunny Hill Health Centre’s new rehabilitative technology that uses markerless motion capture and virtual reality devices.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Clubfoot Study<\/h3>

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.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Prosthetic Insole<\/h3>

Collaboration with Dr. Cooper<\/a> and the Digital Lab<\/a> to quantify the intervention of a customized prosthetic insole for children with fibular hemimelia.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Split Tib Post Transfer<\/h3>

Determining if routing of the split tendon transfer through the interosseous membrane improves ankle dorsiflexion in swing compared to routing posterior to the fibula.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Leg Length Discrepancy<\/h3>

Collaboration with\u00a0Dr. Cooper<\/a>\u00a0to compare the LLD measurements between EOS scans, manual physiotherapist assessment, and motion capture technology.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Publications<\/h2>

Select publications from The Motion Lab.<\/p>Publications<\/a><\/div>\n

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