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| Session 1: | Time | MOTOR CONTROL – 9.00am-10.30am |
| Chairs: Martin Héroux & |
09:00 | RANDY FLANAGAN Coming to grips with sensorimotor control (Read abstract) |
| Graham Kerr | 09:30 | LEAH BENT Stochastic Resonance can enhance cutaneous reflex responses in the lower limb (Read abstract) |
| 09:45 | JAYNE GARLAND Do reactions to balance perturbations improve with Fast muscle Activation and Stepping Training (FAST) in sub-acute stroke? (Read abstract) |
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| 10:00 | SEAN DUKELOW Using robots and other techniques to guide stroke rehabilitation (Read Abstract) |
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| Morning tea | 10:30-11:00am | |
| Session 2: | Time | STANDING AND FALLS – 11:00am-12.30pm |
| Chairs: Kim Delbaere & |
11:00 | IAN HARRIS Evidence-based surgery (Read abstract) |
| Mirjam Pijnappels | 11:30 | JOANNE KUA The effects of a specialized treadmill system on gait speed and gait parameters for older adults with high falls risk (Read abstract) |
| 11:45 | KIM VAN SCHOOTEN The effect of central processing and muscle torque development speed on balance recovery during standing (Read abstract) |
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| 12:00 | KATE CARROLL Footsteps, falls and functional ambulation in children with neuromuscular disease (Read abstract) |
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12:15 | GRAHAM KERR Objective assessment of upper limb tremor distinguishes Parkinson’s fallers and non-fallers and is predictive of future falls (Read abstract) |
| Lunch | 12:30-1:30pm | |
| Session 3: | Time | YOUNG INVESTIGATORS – 1:30-2:42pm |
| Chairs: Karen Søgaard & Jayne Garland |
1:30 | KEVIN GILMORE The effects of demyelination in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy on neuromuscular properties, muscle quantity & quality. (Read abstract) |
| 1:42 | HARRISON FINN Firing of fatigue-sensitive small-diameter afferents of the calf muscles impairs maximal contractions of the knee extensor muscles (Read abstract) |
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| 1:54 | SHARI O’BRIEN Visuomotor ankle force training in individuals with spastic cerebral palsy compared to their typically developed peers. (Read abstract) |
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| 2:06 | ZOE DJAJADIKARTA Ankle proprioception in people with Multiple Sclerosis (Read abstract) |
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| 2:18 | LYNDON SMITH Impaired sensorimotor control of the hand in congenital absence of functional muscle spindles (Read abstract) |
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| 2:30 | PAULO PELICIONI Cognitive contributions to the control of balance during stepping in young & older adults – a fNIRS study. (Read abstract) |
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| Afternoon Tea | 2:42pm – 3:15pm | |
| Session 4: | Time | PAIN & FATIGUE – 3.15pm-5:00pm |
| Chairs: Andrew Cresswell and | 3:15 | KAREN SØGAARD Muscle pain, fatigue and performance in motor impairments (Read abstract) |
| Siobhan Schabrun | 3:45 | JANET TAYLOR Impairment of motor output by fatigue-related firing of small-diameter muscle afferents (Read abstract) |
| 4:00 | CHRIS MCNEIL Peripheral fatigue in young and old females and males (Read abstract) |
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| 4:15 | SIOBHAN SCHABRUN Motor function and motor cortical reorganization in the transition to sustained pain (Read abstract) |
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| 4:30 | PAUL HODGES Physical activity reduces dysregulation of the inflammatory mediators in the multifidus muscle after spontaneous intervertebral disc degeneration in SPARC-null mice (Read abstract) |
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| 4:45 | STEPHEN LORD Closing remarks |
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| End of day 3 | 5:00pm (Conference concludes) |