Christopher McCrum

Looking for a PhD-student position? Eager to work with advanced rehabtech and scalable augmented-reality solutions for fall-risk assessment and treatment? Learn from a team of scientists, Strolll entrepreneurs & developers and clinicians? Love interacting with older adults in NL & BE? Please apply!

New job vacancy!

Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social

@ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

New job vacancy!

Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social

@ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

What a week it was at #ISPGR2025 last week!

It was really special to have so many amazing colleagues productively interacting in our city (with encouragement from @melvynroerdink.bsky.social)! Thanks to all involved in the planning and organisation @ispgr.bsky.social and all who attended!

All in all a really successful week! Looking forward to #ISPGR2027 in Kyoto!

Amongst all of these sessions, @lisetvdhulst.bsky.social @ahanff.bsky.social, Meichan, Tansu Birinci & Aybike Senel all presented their work performed with us over the last few years!

On Wednesday, I chaired the symposium "Current and emerging approaches to improving balance and gait in vestibulopathy" with talks from Anissa Boutabla, Klaus Jahn, Andreas Zwergal & Max Wühr, & our own PhD candidate Meichan Zhu, who also presented for the third time in the 3MT final.

A personal career highlight came for me on Tuesday with my talk as the ISPGR 2025 Promising Scientist!
Directly followed by a busy poster session where I shared the results of a project conducted in Toronto with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social (preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

On the Monday, I really enjoyed chairing the session "Falls – Mechanism, Prediction and Intervention" with a really interesting range of presentations from Rudri Purohit, Yoshiro Okubo, Jennifer Davis, @antoinelangeard.bsky.social, Maaike van Gameren, Stephen Robinovitch & lnbal Paran

We had the pleasure of hosting 4 different events in our CAREN and University labs, including our workshop "Designing technology-assisted, task-specific protocols for walking experiments, assessments and training", the Motek user meeting and our official ISPGR Lab Tour.

What a week it was at #ISPGR2025 last week!

It was really special to have so many amazing colleagues productively interacting in our city (with encouragement from @melvynroerdink.bsky.social)! Thanks to all involved in the planning and organisation @ispgr.bsky.social and all who attended!

See you in Japan! #ISPGR2027

I think Rudri's phone was used. I will ask her.

Another busy day for members of our group and collaborators @ispgr.bsky.social #ISPGR2025
Go and say hi!

Thanks Melvyn - looking forward to this new project!

Proud of colleague @chrismccrum.bsky.social for receiving the well-deserved #ISPGR2025 promising young scientist award! Looking forward to kick off a PhD project with him, Pieter Meyns, and @kennethmeijer.bsky.social in the fall on augmented reality fall-risk assessment and treatment with #Strolll

A busy day for our group! Come and chat! #ISPGR2025 @ispgr.bsky.social

Me too :) I really loved the approach!

Look out today @ispgr.bsky.social #ISPGR2025 for these presentations with members of our group!

And we’re off with #ISPGR2025 president @kim-delbaere.bsky.social opening a what promises to be exciting conference!

Meeting friends old and new on #ispgr2025. Hope to connect online as well! @ispgr.bsky.social

Estimating the Replicability of Sports and Exercise Science Research - Sports Medicine Background The replicability of sports and exercise research has not been assessed previously despite concerns about scientific practices within the field. Aim This study aims to provide an initial es...

Pleased our research group could contribute in a small way (with 1 of 25 replication studies) to this monumental effort led by @jennymurphy2.bsky.social

A very important project with huge implications both for researchers & practice in sports/exercise science!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Estimating the Replicability of Sports and Exercise Science Research - Sports Medicine Background The replicability of sports and exercise research has not been assessed previously despite concerns about scientific practices within the field. Aim This study aims to provide an initial es...

Pleased our research group could contribute in a small way (with 1 of 25 replication studies) to this monumental effort led by @jennymurphy2.bsky.social

A very important project with huge implications both for researchers & practice in sports/exercise science!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A 40-Year Contemporary Evolution of Gait and Posture Mechanics in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics "A 40-Year Contemporary Evolution of Gait and Posture Mechanics in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics" published on 10 Jun 2025 by Human Kinetics.

Pleasure to collaborate with fellow @jabjournal.bsky.social Associate Editors @chrismccrum.bsky.social and Tanvi Bhatt in writing "A 40-Year Contemporary Evolution of Gait and Posture Mechanics in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics". Now available open access: doi.org/10.1123/jab.....

1🧵: Through an in-depth analysis of 802 individuals, we found that women tend to have a slower progression of memory loss, sleep issues, walking difficulties, balance problems, and motor symptoms.

Sex-specific progression of Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal mixed-models analysis - Anne-Marie Hanff, Christopher McCrum, Armin Rauschenberger, Gloria A Aguayo, Claire Pauly, Sonja R Jónsdóttir, O... Background Despite its relevance, the clinical progression of motor- and non-motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) is poorly described an...

🧠 Parkinson’s: Not Just Frequency, But Progression Too
Did you know that Parkinson's disease is 1.4 times more common in men than women? But that’s not the whole story—men also experience a faster worsening of symptoms compared to women.🧵

Gait adaptability training at Sümela Monastery

Had a great week in Trabzon, Turkey at #PhysAgeNet 2025! On Thursday, I presented the pilot study of our PhD candidate Liset van der Hulst on fall-resisting skills, followed by a trip to Sümela Monastery where we had some immediate practice!

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Assessing gait variability concurrently with dynamic visual acuity on a treadmill in people with bilateral vestibulopathy

Thanks Avril :)