Faculty member: Sue Ann Sisto
Project name: Rehabilitation for Spinal Cord Injuries
Duration of research experience: Spring, Summer, and Fall 2024
How many hours a week will the student be working: 2 to 8 hours
Will this be in person or remote: In person: Biomedical Lab, Kimball 115
Gait across the decades
Project goals: Goals are to assess 3D gait using motion capture cameras, sensors to capture muscle activity and in-ground force plates, for healthy people up to age 80.
Project tasks: Place markers and sensors on subjects, run software for data capture and help to summarize biomechanical data.
The effect of acute exercise in spinal cord injury
Project goals: Collect cardiovascular (blood pressure, heart rate, cerebral blood flow) after a brief acute exercise bout.
Project tasks: Assist in recording data, helping to collect and process data with a Ph.D. student.
A novel corticospinal model for use in neurorehabilitation
Project goals: Understand how the brain and spinal cord networks work and how they adapt when perturbed.
Project tasks: Help to set up study documents and prepare setting to start the study and learn how to use Matlab to process data.
Locomotor training and spinal cord stimulation on the recovery of walking
Project goals: Determine if either or both interventions improve walking independence and function.
Project tasks: Assist people with SCI to walk on a treadmill which is physically challenging and assist with all assessments.
