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Fall 2019
Background: Back pain is the world’s leading cause of disability, and has high associated cost. Psychosocial factors such as unhelpful, maladaptive beliefs can be instrumental in the transition from acute to chronic disabling back pain. One such maladaptive belief is that back pain is due...
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Spring 2010
Maintaining balance is controlled by two different processes: feedforward and feedback control. Feed-forward control is used prior to performing voluntary movements whereas feedback control is used to correct for unexpected perturbations. Studies suggested that age-related changes in postural...
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Fall 2015
Background The therapeutic relationship (TR) in physiotherapy, sometimes described as the rapport or the alliance between physiotherapist and patient, is an important aspect of clinical interactions. Physiotherapists are expected attend to the TR as a standard of patient-centred practice. Recent...
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Behavioural and Neuroimaging Investigation of Two Stages of Metaphor Comprehension Using the Metaphor Interference Effect in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Background Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are reported to have difficulty understanding figurative language, such as metaphors, but emerging evidence suggests that such problems are associated with structural language impairments and not an ASD diagnosis. However, even when...
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Spring 2023
The current research of French Immersion suggests that the education of a minority second language is complex, important to study and yet to be understood in the context of Western Canada (Walker, 2012). This thesis aims to better understand bilingual speech productions in French Immersion...
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Can an ergometer based virtual reality environment reproduce typical real-world wheelchair manoeuvring?
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Virtual reality together with a wheelchair ergometer provide the perfect setting for conducting research involving wheelchair users, rehabilitation for inexperienced wheelchair users, and training wheelchair athletes. The target of this study was to develop a wheelchair ergometer-based virtual...
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Can an ergometer based virtual reality environment reproduce typical real-world wheelchair manoeuvring?
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Virtual reality together with a wheelchair ergometer provide the perfect setting for conducting research involving wheelchair users, rehabilitation for inexperienced wheelchair users, and training wheelchair athletes. The target of this study was to develop a wheelchair ergometer-based virtual...
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Fall 2013
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among females, and the second leading cause of cancer death among Canadian women. Despite improved survival, both short and long term detrimental effects have been observed with both novel and conventional anti-cancer therapies. In particular, the...