Exercise physiology

Darlene Reid

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
• Department
  • Physical Therapy

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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Ira Jacobs

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

• Exercise pharmacology
• Exercise physiology
• Human skeletal muscle metabolism
• Nutritional and/or pharmacological interventions affecting exercise performance
• Physiological adaptations to acute short-term, high intensity exercise
• Physiological responses and adaptations to environmental extremes

Office: 416-978-6978
Languages: Swedish, French, Hebrew
Email: ira.jacobs@utoronto.ca
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