{"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":"2026-03-16T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:00:40","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>

A new clinical program for children and youth who have had an ACL injury. We quantify their movement for a set of sporting maneuvers to provide surgeons with more information of their motion.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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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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