Revolutions: PHC newsletter - Summer 2018

Find out more about the Demands of Wheelchair Tennis, Sydney Valentino's visit to the PHC and our disability coaching research, as well as a spotlight on Dr Cheri Blauwet - Sports Medicine Physician at Spaulding Rehabilitation and Harvard Medical School, also former Paralympian. .

The Peter Harrison Centre newsletter from Summer 2018 also includes a welcome to new PHC members Dr Viola Altmann, Medical Doctor at the Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Dr Jamie Barker, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University, Cristina D’Angeli, PhD Student at Loughborough University, and Conor Murphy, GBWR Talent Pathways Manager & PhD Student at Loughborough University. It also includes infomation on:

Conferences and visits

  • Sports Injuries and Sports Orthopaedics Conference
  • Skills4Performance 2018
  • Sports Empowering Disabled Youth Conference
  • The Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport to present at IWBF Forum
  • Conference at Yonsei University and Winter Paralympics, South Korea
  • Japan Para Championships
  • Korea Wheelchair Rugby Visited the Peter Harrison Centre

Research updates

  • King Power Wheelchair Rugby Quad Nations: Classification Workshops
  • Hot Water Immersion Research
  • Translating the Spinal Cord Injury Exercise Guidelines
  • Physical and Technical demands of Wheelchair Tennis
  • Neuromechanics post very Severe Injury
  • Update on England Visually Impaired Cricket team

Publications

  • Bundon, A.., Ashfield, A.., Smith, B., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2018). Struggling to stay and struggling to leave: The experiences of elite para-athletes at the end of their sport careers. Psychology of Sport & Exercise.
  • Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., van der Scheer, J. W., Lexell, J., Clements, K., Martin Ginis, K. A. (2018). International SCI Exercise Guidelines Project Group. Development of scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury. British Journal of Sports Medicine. Apr 25. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., van der Scheer, J. W., Lexell, J., Clements, K., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2018). Development of scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury. British Journal of Sports Medicine.
  • Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., Vegter, R. J. K., Mason, B. S., Paulson, T. A. W., Lenton, J. P., van der Scheer, J. W., & van der Woude, L. H. V. (2018). Sprint performance and propulsion asymmetries on an ergometer in trained high- and low-point wheelchair rugby players. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. May;28(5):1586-1593. Epub 2018 Feb 15. PMID: 29350429
  • Groot, S., Hoekstra, S., Comtesse, P., Kouwijzer, I., & Valent, L. (2018). Relationships between internal and external handcycle training load in people with spinal cord injury training for the handbikebattle. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 50(3), 261–268.
  • Leicht, C. A., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., Bishop, N. C. (2018). Exercise intensity and its impact on relationships between salivary immunoglobulin A, saliva flow rate and plasma cortisol concentration. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 2018 Apr 7. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Mason, B., van der Slikke, R. M. A., Hutchinson, M., Berger, M., & Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2017). The effect of small-sided game formats on physical and technical performance in wheelchair basketball. International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance. Dec 18:1-19. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Mason B. S, Vegter R. J. K, Paulson T. A. W, Morrissey D, van der Scheer J. W & Goosey-Tolfrey V. L, (2018) Bilateral scapular kinematics, asymmetries and shoulder pain in wheelchair athletes. Gait Posture, 65:151-156.
  • Martin Ginis, K. A., van der Scheer, J. W., Latimer-Cheung, A. E., Barrow, A., Bourne, C., Carruthers, P., Bernardi, M., Ditor, D. S., Gaudet, S., de Groot, S., Hayes, K. C., Hicks, A. L., Leicht, C. A., Lexell, J., Macaluso, S., Manns, P. J., McBride, C. B., Noonan, V., Pomerleau, P., Rimmer, J. H., Shaw, R. B., Smith, B., Smith, K. M., Steeves, J., Tussler, D., West, C. R., Wolfe, D. L., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2018). Response to correspondence from the ESSA Statement authors. Spinal Cord. Jan 18. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Martin Ginis, K. A., van der Scheer, J. W., Latimer-Cheung, A. E., Barrow, A., Bourne, C., Carruthers, P., Bernardi, M., Ditor, D. S., Gaudet, S., de Groot, S., Hayes, K. C., Hicks, A. L., Leicht, C. A., Lexell, J., Macaluso, S., Manns, P. J., McBride, C. B., Noonan, V., Pomerleau, P., Rimmer, J. H., Shaw, R. B., Smith, B., Smith, K. M., Steeves, J., Tussler, D., West, C. R., Wolfe, D. L., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L. (2018). Evidence-based scientific exercise guidelines for adults with spinal cord injury: An update and a new guideline. Spinal Cord, 56(4), 308–321.
  • van der Scheer, J. W., Kamijo, Y.-I., Leicht, C. A., Millar, P. J., Shibasaki, M., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., & Tajima, F. (2018). A comparison of static and dynamic cerebral autoregulation during mild whole-body cold stress in individuals with and without cervical spinal cord injury: a pilot study. Spinal Cord, 56(5), 469–477.
  • Williams, T. L., Smith, B., & Papathomas, A. (2018). Physical activity promotion for people with spinal cord injury: physiotherapists’ beliefs and actions. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(1), 52–61.
  • Withers, T. M., Croft, L., Goosey-Tolfrey, V. L., Dunstan, D. W., Leicht, C. A., & Bailey, D. P. (2018). Cardiovascular disease risk marker responses to breaking up prolonged sedentary time in individuals with paraplegia: the Spinal Cord Injury Move More (SCIMM) randomised crossover laboratory trial protocol. BMJ Open, 8(6).

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