Research Axes
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Axis 1: Sensory, motor and cognitive functions and activities
- Theme 1: Functional mechanisms
- Theme 2: Physical and cognitive activities
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Axis 2 : Social participation and inclusion & rehabilitation services
- Theme 1: Interpersonal relationships and support, life environment, community , social and civic life
- Theme 2: Services, systems and policies
These two research axes cover the various aspects of the disability production process and are skewed to the understanding of:
- personal factors: integrity and impairment of organic systems as well as the capacities and incapacities of the individual;
- relationships with the environment: facilitating factors and obstacles that promote self realization or hinder habits and life projects;
- social participation and adaptation of society to promote the inclusion of persons with physical disabilities.
Through their work and close cooperation with the clinicians, the researches of the IRGLM contribute to the advancement of rehabilitation sciences and the implementation of evidence-based clinical tools.
Axis 1: Sensory, motor and cognitive functions and activities
AISSAOUI, Rachid (associate researcher)
Pathological approach of persons presenting with gonarthrosis; posture and mobility in populations with physical disabilities; bio-mechanical modelling of movement and gesture; postural stability in the sitting position in the child with a cerebral motor dysfunction.
ARSENAULT, A. Bertrand (associate researcher)
Assessment of weakness and muscular fatigue in persons presenting with back and neck pain.
BARTHÉLEMY, Dorothy (researcher)
Rehabilitation of standing and walking equilibrium following a lesion of the central nervous system.
BOURBONNAIS, Daniel (researcher)
Assessment and treatment of the upper limbs in persons having suffered a stroke and presenting with hand involvement.
COMTOIS, Alain Steve (regular researcher)
Assessment of bio-motor capacity; brain injury; spinal cord injury.
COURTOIS, Frédérique J. (regular researcher)
Post-traumatic sexual capacity in those suffering from spinal cord injuries; physiological parameters of sexual response in those suffering from spinal cord injuries with controls; psycho-sexual case management of those with spinal cord injuries.
DUCLOS, Cyril (regular researcher)
Use of muscular vibrations for prognosis and rehabilitation purposes in neurological pathologies and on the analysis of postural control in dynamic tasks using a bio-mechanical approach.
➢ See the Laboratory of Research in Pathokinesiology Web site.
FELDMAN, Anatol G. (regular researcher)
Movement control mechanisms; upper limb coordination; trunk; repetitive movements; hemiparesis; Parkinson's.
FORGET, Robert (regular researcher)
Sensorimotor integration of the posture and movement in humans; somesthetic sensitivities and nervous system adaptation during neurological damage; excitability of the cortical and spinal nervous circuits; interventions using somesthetic influx; stroke; brain injury; spinal cord damage and amputation.
FRAK, Victor G. (regular researcher)
Prehension; assessment and rehabilitation strategies.
GAGNON, Dany (regular researcher)
Study of the requirements involved in the accomplishment of various functional tasks (ex.: transfers, propulsion of the wheelchair, etc.) with clienteles presenting with disabilities and incapacities (ex.: spinal cord injuries); development of innovative therapeutic interventions designed to optimize performance when these functional activities are carried out.
➢ See the Laboratory of Research in Pathokinesiology Web site.
GAUTHIER-GAGNON, Christiane (associate researcher)
Prosthetics training, equilibrium, use of prosthesis in amputees
HIGGINS, Johanne (regular researcher)
Rehabilitation of the upper limbs through task-oriented therapy and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in persons having suffered a stroke; study of the measurement of various cerebral plasticity phenomena following a stroke using transcranial magnetic stimulation; development and validation of various measures used in rehabilitation using the Rasch model for measurement and the item response theory as well as the computer development of adaptive measures.
LARIVIÈRE, Christian (regular researcher)
Development of objective measures to quantify lumbar disabilities due to chronic lumbalgia (abnormal intersegmentary and muscular coordination; weakness and weariableness of back muscles, reflex responses) and assessment of various types of exercise for the purpose of training the dorsolumbar muscles.
LEVIN, Mindy F. (regular researcher)
Modelling; arm movement; jaw; movement control and training; coordination; TENS and spasticity; hemiplegia; cerebral palsy.
NADEAU, Sylvie (regular researcher)
Analysis of gait and other functional tasks; function-limiting determinants and factors; dynamometry.
➢ See the Laboratory of Research in Pathokinesiology Web site.
Axis 2 : Social participation and inclusion & rehabilitation services
CARA, Chantal (researcher)
Philosophy of caring; humanistic approach to Nursing; phenomenological qualitative research methods; health of the nurse caregiver in the field of rehabilitation.O'REILLY, Louise (researcher)
Phenomenon of “being with” the person being cared for; caring; relational caring; rehabilitation nursing care; phenomenological method « Relational Caring Inquiry »; Watson's Human Caring philosophy.
POISSANT, Lise (researcher)
Information technologies and their impact; integrated information system; stroke clientele; technological platforms.
VANIER, Marie (researcher)
Metric properties of a driving simulator for assessing and providing automobile driving training; metric properties of a road test (DriveAble); impact of disabilities of the visual field on driver performance.