Nine days to go until the ANZFPS Biennial Conference! Introducing one of our plenary speakers Dr@tobyellmers.bsky.social. Toby will be presenting on concerns about falling as a risk for future falls.
Tickets still available at: anzfpconference.com.au/registration/
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Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Introducing our next invited speaker Prof Rebecca Ivers. Rebecca is a Professor of Public Health at UNSW and will be presenting on delivering fall prevention programs in community settings.
Conference tickets still available: anzfpconference.com.au
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The most comprehensive systematic review on daily step counts and disease outcomes. Is the 10000 steps per day outdated?
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We’re hiring a postdoctoral associate in Biomechanics @UNOmaha! Focus: gait training for stroke survivors. Lab and/or field studies, collaboration with experts at the universty and medical center. PhD in PT, biomechanics, biomed eng, or related.
👉 biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...
Pleased to share the third publication from our PhD candidate Meichan Zhu's thesis:
"Dynamic visual acuity in bilateral vestibulopathy and healthy age–sex-matched participants"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Co-activation can be functional, to stabilize, or pathological, e.g. after stroke, but both are captured in one EMG recording.
In our recent paper (first-author Ellis van Can) we isolate functional co-activation through a leg-swinging task in healthy adults.
Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.ga...
The program for the 11th Biennial Australia and New Zealand Falls Prevention Conference is now available. Check out the plethora of talks on program implementation, training, and policy and planning innovations in falls prevention in Australia, New Zealand and internationally.
anzfpconference.com.au
We've grown more and more interested in the role of fatigue in shaping locomotor behavior. Our latest paper points to a functional consequence of the increased physiological demand placed on calf muscles when operating at shorter lengths—namely accelerated fatigue.
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Title: Exercise Physiologist
📍Place: @apple 🇺🇸
💰Salary: $141,800 and $258,600
📅Deadline: -
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ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io
Honoured to join the AAHMS Mentorship Program as one of 17 new mentees. Excited to work with Academy Fellows, contribute to policy & help shape the future of health and medical research.
aahms.org/news/17-emer...
#AAHMS #Mentorship #Leadership
Validity of measures of reactive balance training intensity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.06.668970v1
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
Prioritizing skeletal muscle health for successful aging “The beneficial effects of exercise on skeletal muscle cannot be overstated, and the impact of healthy skeletal muscle on successful aging should not be underestimated.” www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/prio...
Preventing Falls in Older Australians: Applying the Updated National Guidelines in Practice recording now available.
Hosted in partnership between the CRE in the Prevention of Fall Related Injuries, The ANZFPS and @injurymatters.bsky.social.
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Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney
Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
Ever wondered how affective measures in MS relate to reactive balance? And whether a history of falls changes this relationship? ⁉️ Find out more below!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Just over one month until #WorldPTDay – check out the toolkit in 16 languages and start making plans to mark the day
Find out more: ow.ly/N9Nk50WyEXl
Volunteer translators are working on other languages and these will be published ASAP
We know how to prevent falls in older Australians, and save lives. So, why aren’t we?
Read what now needs to happen following the release of the revised national Falls Prevention Guidelines here: www.croakey.org/we-know-how-...
This October, the fifth Motor Impairment Conference will take place in Amsterdam.
We have an excellent list of invited speakers on various domains of motor impairment and cordially invite you to join.
Abstract submission deadline is August 8th. For details see: motorimpairment.org.
#ISPGR @kimvanschooten.bsky.social presents on real world mobility and falls
President @kim-delbaere.bsky.social #ISPGR2025 announces the next conference location and adjourns the meeting - see you all in two years in Kyoto!
Great keynote by Kathleen Cullen on neural circuits of postural control - exciting talk with lots of cool paradigms #ISPGR2025
Catch me for the better version of you need it?
I’ll ask Steve
#ISPGR2025
Great keynote by Peter Shull on How to impact society through wearable research - lots of commercial/academic collaboration and real world impact!
Awesome work by Daina Sturnieks on the effect of anxiety and cognitive dual tasking on balance recovery - clear age effect, no effect of cognitive load, axiety does seem to delay recovery, partially driven by shorter step length #ISPGR2025
Great debate #ISPGR2025 on patient participation in research, results: 44% YES / 56% NO* but with a side note: *engagement should be meaningful. Well done @meghanambrens.bsky.social @moragtaylor.bsky.social and team :)
