Origins of Balance Deficits and Falls
The cluster's research aims to advance our understanding of the mechanistic principles of healthy balance control and the mechanisms that underlie balance deficits and falls. Our research will provide the foundation for developing improved clinical balance screening tools, effective therapeutic interventions and new technological advances to reduce the likelihood and impact of balance deficits and falls.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Blouin, Jean-Sebastien | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Sensorimotor Integration, Motor System, Robotics and Automation, Trauma / Injuries, Physiology, Sensorimotor physiology, Standing balance, Balance robot, Sensory virtualisation, Computational approaches, Head and neck, Whiplash injuries |
| Carpenter, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Chua, Romeo | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human perceptual-motor control, vision and action, perceptual-motor compatibility, coordination |
| Cripton, Peter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Trauma / Injuries, Cranio-Encephalic and Spinal Cord Trauma, Mechanical Systems, Spinal cord injury, neurotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, biomechanics, injury prevention, hip fracture, spine biomechanics |
| Hodges, Nicola | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Psychology - Biological Aspects, action anticipation and observation, coaching, skill acquisition, Motor learning |
| Hunt, Michael Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Arthritis / Osteo-Arthritis, Joints (Articulations), Musculoskeletal Deformation, Neuromuscular Diseases, Orthoses and Prostheses, Rehabilitation, biomechanics, musculoskeletal, Physical Activity, exercise |
| Hurd, Laura | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social Aspects of Aging, Social Determinants of Health, Loss of Independence, Identity Building, Participatory research, Quality of Life and Aging, Sexuality, Stereotypes, Aging Process, Aging, health, Gender, body image, embodiment or embodied experience, disability, chronic illness or chronic conditions, Assistive technology, gender identity, sexual orientation, Physical Activity, qualitative methods, LGBTQ older adults, media representation, ageism, heterosexism, ableism, sociology of aging, social gerontology |
| Inglis, J Timothy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Exercise science, neurophysiology, biomechanics, stance and balance control, human microneurography, physical therapy and rehabilitation, vestibular system |
| Kingstone, Alan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human cognition and social attention in complex settings behavioral, neuropsychological, and functional neuroimaging research |
| Kramer, John | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neuromechanical, Systems Biology, Exercise & Health |
| Lam, Tania | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Rehabilitation, Cranio-Encephalic and Spinal Cord Trauma, gait rehabilitation, exercise, neurorecovery |
| McKeown, Martin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Parkinson's Disease, novel treatments for Parkinson's, Monitoring Parkinson's, Brain Stimulation, Biomedical Engineering |
| Pollock, Courtney | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | motor control of walking balance and balance reactions, impact of neurological changes associated with aging, disease and injury on motor control |
| Van der Loos, Hendrik | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Rehabilitation Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Design for Safety, Design Methodology and Design Coaching, Roboethics |