Physical Therapy
Darlene Reid
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Cool devices to evaluate how much muscle recruited during physical activity and signs that it is failing.
- Dual task performance in people with COPD
- Exercise for people who are less fit
- Exercise physiology
- Hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation during hand grip exercise in people with mitochondrial disease
- How muscle responds to exercise and is slow to respond or fails to respond when older or if suffering from a chronic disease
- Image analysis of CT images performed to evaluate thoracic spine and rib cage abnormalities that contribute to pain in people living with COPD
- Musculoskeletal biology and physiology
- Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) performed during loaded breathing in healthy men
- Reconstruction of 3D images from MRIs in order to evaluate regional thigh muscle atrophy in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Tissue deoxygenation during inspiratory threshold loading and biceps loading in people with COPD
- Why exercise is an important investment for life
Office: (416) 978-0301
Mobile: (647) 919-0273
Website
Email: darlene.reid@utoronto.ca
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Kara Patterson
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Dance
- Gait
- Neurorehabilitation
- stroke
Office: (416) 946-8549
Website
Email: kara.patterson@utoronto.ca
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Kristin Musselman
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Functional electrical stimulation
- Spinal cord injury
Office: (416) 597-3422 Ext. 6190
Website
Email: kristin.musselman@utoronto.ca
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Molly Verrier
Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Development of novel intervention strategies for restorative motor control for posture, mobility and function, and
- Evaluation of neurotherapeutic techniques and neurorehabilitation service delivery.
- Health service delivery
- Physical therapy
- Rehabilitation informatics
- Rehabilitation spinal cord injury
- Utilization of electromyography, kinetic and kinematic analysis for understanding neurological disorders
Office: N/A
Website
Email: m.verrier@utoronto.ca
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Susan Jaglal
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Appropriateness
- Osteoporosis
- Self-management and knowledge translation
- Spinal cord injury and rehabilitation health services with emphasis on utilization
Office: 416-946-3941
Website
Email: susan.jaglal@utoronto.ca
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