The College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences recently teamed up with the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan for the 2022 Prairie Research Conference, titled Collaborating for Health and Wellness: Rehabilitation Research including the Impacts of COVID-19.
The two-day event was hosted by the University of Saskatchewan and held virtually March 24-25. It brought together 87 researchers, clinicians, administrators and students interested and engaged in the rehabilitation field.
The keynote speakers were Dr. Veronica McKinney, director of the northern medical services department at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Medicine, and Katrina Anne Pōtiki Bryant, associate dean Māori at the University of Otago School of Physiotherapy in New Zealand.
Other speakers included Dr. Simon Décary is a physiotherapist and assistant professor of rehabilitation at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, School of Rehabilitation Science faculty members Dr. Scotty Butcher and Dr. Stacey Lovo, and College of Rehabilitation alumni Katie Kitchen and Marlee Mayer.
The event also included a poster competition for master’s and PhD students. Below are the winners.
Masters:
1st – Tayah Zhang (University of Saskatchewan) – Responsive Methods of Pain Assessment in Indigenous Populations
2nd – Chelsea Scheller (University of Manitoba) – Motor Competence and Resistance Training Participation among Women
3rd – Daya Kaur (University of Manitoba) – The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Public Health Measures on the Practice of Primary Care Allied Health Professionals in Manitoba and Ontario
PhD:
1st – Banke Oketoa (University of Manitoba) – Physical Activity as an Adjunct Therapy in Quiescent and Mildly Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (Protocol)
2nd – Dean Cordingley (University of Manitoba) – Blood-flow restricted resistance exercise induced myokine secretion is correlated with changes in muscle strength but not fat free mass
3rd – Kamiar Ghoseir (University of Saskatchewan) – Gait evaluation of stance control knee-ankle-foot orthosis in a patient with spinal cord injury