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Carolyn Sparrey
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Research
Latest papers
Power-Assist Add-Ons for Older Adult Manual Wheelchair Users: Protocol for a Scoping Review.
JMIR research protocols · 2025
Accessible exercise for wheelchair users: comparing the usability of two adapted exercise machines.
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology · 2024
Effect of Impact Parameters on a Unilateral Contusion Model of Spinal Cord Injury in a Virtual Population of Non-Human Primates.
Neurotrauma reports · 2023 · senior author
Latest funding
- $25,000
Towards subject specific spinal cord injury criteria
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $25,000
Coupling ultrasound and precision mechanical testing to measure large deformation in vivo tissue mechanical properties.
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $322,000
Modeling Humans: Defining In Vivo Joint and Contact Characteristics
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Power-Assist Add-Ons for Older Adult Manual Wheelchair Users: Protocol for a Scoping Review.
Atoyebi O, Wister A, Mattie J, Gutman G, Chaudhury H, Sparrey C, Jones OY, Mortenson WB, O'Dea E, Hosseini SH, Borisoff J
Accessible exercise for wheelchair users: comparing the usability of two adapted exercise machines.
Anderson E, Baker A, Borisoff J, Mattie J, Sawatzky B, Sparrey C, Mortenson WB
Effect of Impact Parameters on a Unilateral Contusion Model of Spinal Cord Injury in a Virtual Population of Non-Human Primates.
Obaid N, Bojic AM, Jannesar S, Salegio E, Nout-Lomas Y, Beattie M, Bresnahan J, Sparrey C
Acute physiological comparison of sub-maximal exercise on a novel adapted rowing machine and arm crank ergometry in people with a spinal cord injury.
Sawatzky B, Herrington B, Choi K, Ben Mortenson W, Borisoff J, Sparrey C, Laskin JJ
Probing mechanical properties of Jurkat cells under the effect of ART using oscillating optical tweezers.
Khakshour S, Beischlag TV, Sparrey C, Park EJ
Towards subject specific spinal cord injury criteria
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn CJ
Keywords: biomechanics; damage thresholds; finite element models; in vivo models; MRI; spinal cord injury; surgery
Coupling ultrasound and precision mechanical testing to measure large deformation in vivo tissue mechanical properties.
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
Modeling Humans: Defining In Vivo Joint and Contact Characteristics
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
Keywords: computational models; falls; impact; in vivo tissues; joint reactions; joint stiffness; muscles; optimization; rigid body dynamics; tissue contact properties
Modeling Humans: Defining In Vivo Joint and Contact Characteristics
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
A portable tool positioning system for the mechanical testing of in vivo tissues
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
Intelligent real-time control system for a Hydro-Solar Hybrid Power plant
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
Wireless inertial sensing-based full-body human kinematic measurement system
Principal investigators: Park, Edward
Developing a low-cost instrumented insole to track and differentiate load bearing activities in the workplace.
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
Laser Doppler spot vibrometer for characterization of macro- to nano-structures
Principal investigators: Bahreyni, Behraad
Development of an intraoperative tool positioning system
Principal investigators: Sparrey, Carolyn
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Andrew Wister and Habib Chaudhury: 2 shared papers
- Bonita Sawatzky and Carolyn Sparrey: 2 shared papers
- Andrew Wister and Carolyn Sparrey: 1 shared paper
- Habib Chaudhury and Carolyn Sparrey: 1 shared paper
- Mechatronic Systems Engineering
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Gerontology
- Other
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