As return to campus planning intensified for the Faculty of Health, Associate Directors Derek Rutherford and Diane MacKenzie, of the Schools of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy respectively, recognized the need to streamline COVID-19 pre-screening to maximize face-to-face learning opportunities and ensure the safety of learners, faculty and clinical staff returning to campus.

The associate directors envisioned a mobile application which would be embedded into the Brightspace learning management system. Their idea developed into the creation of the COVID-19 pre-screening app. Find the complete story here. 

Publications

McArthur C, Ziebart C, Laprade J. (2020) What do we know about spinal manual therapy for people with osteoporosis? A narrative review. Published online December 1, 2020. Physical Therapy Reviews. doi/full/10.1080/10833196.2020.1852906Publications 

McArthur C, Saari M, Heckman G, Wellens N, Weir J, Hebert P, Turcotte L, Jbilou J, Hirdes J. (2020) Evaluating the effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on long-term care residents’ mental health: a data driven approach in New Brunswick. Journal of American Medical Director’s Association. S1525-8610(20)30915-4. 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.10.028

McArthur C, Ioannidis G, Hillier L, Adachi JD, Giangregorio L, Hirdes J, Papaioannou A. (2020) Developing a fracture risk clinical assessment protocol for long-term care: a modified delphi consensus process. Journal of the American Medical Directors’ Association. 21:S1525-8610(20)340705-2. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.015

Eng J, MacKay-Lyons M, Ploughman M. Can we open the critical time window of recovery after stroke? A description of a national clinical trial, the FLOW Trial, looking to address this question. Synapse. CPA Neurosciences Newsletter 14: 5-6, 2020

Quigley A, Brouillette MJ, Gahagan J, O’Brien K, MacKay-Lyons M.  'The Feasibility and Impact of a Yoga Intervention on Cognition, Physical Function, Physical Activity, and Affective Outcomes Among People Living with HIV: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial'. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care. 2020 Volume 19: 1-15. DOI: 10.1177/2325958220935698

Kraeutner SN, McArthur JL, Kraeutner PH, Westwood DA, Boe SG. Leveraging the effector independent nature of motor imagery when it is paired with physical practice. Sci Rep. 2020 10(1):21335.

Lee J, Kraeutner SN, Pancura DR, Boe SG. Probing the Effect of Block Duration on Corticospinal Excitability during Motor Imagery Performance. J Mot Behav. 2020 10:1-8.  

Bhutani M, Hernandez P, Bourbeau J, Dechman G, Penz E, Aceron R, Beauchamp M , Wald J , Stickland M , Olsen S-R , Goodridge D. KEY HIGHLIGHTS of the Canadian Thoracic Society’s Position Statement on the Optimization of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic. CHEST-20-1934. 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.530.
 
Bhutani M, Hernandez P, Bourbeau J, Dechman G, Penz E, Aceron R, Beauchamp M , Wald J , Stickland M , Olsen S-R , Goodridge G. Addressing therapeutic questions to help Canadian health care professionals optimize COPD management for their patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine 2020;4:2, 77-80, DOI: 10.1080/24745332.2020.1754712    

Dechman G, Aceron R, Beauchamp M , Bhutani M , Bourbeau J, Brooks D, Goldstein R, Goodridge D, Hernandez P, Janaudis-Ferreira T, Saey D,  Marciniuk D, Sharla-Rae, Penz E, Ryerson C, Wald J , Wetherald J, Stickland M. Delivering pulmonary rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Canadian Thoracic Society position statement. Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Published online: 23 Nov 2020
 
Bhutani M, Hernandez P, Yang C, Bourbeau J, Licskai C, Dechman G, Van Dam, A & Gupta, S.Canadian Thoracic Society recommendations regarding the use of face masks by the public during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, 4:3,163-164, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/24745332.2020.1780897

Tricco A, Lachance C, Rios Patricia, Darvesh N, Antony J, Radhakrishnan A, Anand S, Baxter NBurns, Karen E. A, Coyle D, Curran J, Fiest K, Graham I D, Hawker G, Légaré F, Watt J, Witteman H, Clark J, Bourgeault I L, Leigh J, Ahmed S, Lawford K, Aiken A, et al.1,16 Global evidence of gender inequity in academic health research: a living scoping review protocol, JBI Evidence Synthesis: October 2020 - Volume 18 - Issue 10 - p 2181-2193 doi: 10.11124/JBIES-20-00078

Pérez-Zepeda MU, Carrillo-Vega MF, Theou O, Jácome-Maldonado LD, García-Peña C . Hospital complications and frailty in Mexican older adults: An Emergency care cohort analysis. Frontiers in Medicine, 2020 7:505.  

Montero-Odasso M, Peruccini-Faria F, Ismail Z, Li K, Lim A, Phillips NA, Kamkar N, Sarquis-Adamson Y, Speechley M, Theou O, Verghese J, Wallace L, and Camicioli R. CCCDTD5 recommendations on early non cognitive markers of dementia. A Canadian consensus. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions,2020  6(1), e12068.  

Church S, Rogers E, Rockwood K, Theou O. A scoping review of the Clinical Frailty Scale. BMC Geriatrics, 2020 20(1):393.  

Khadka J, Visvanathan R, Theou O, Modovan M, Amare A, Lang C, Ratcliffe J, Wesslingh S, Inacio MC. Development and validation of a frailty index using data from the Australian Aged Care Assessment Program. Medical Journal of Australia, 2020 213(7):321-326.  

Rockwood K, Theou O. Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in allocating scare health care resources. Canadian Geriatrics Journal, 23(3):254-259. (2020)

DeClercq V, Duhamel T, Theou O, Kehler DS. Association between lifestyle behaviours and frailty in Atlantic Canadian males and females. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2020 91:104207.  

Kraeutner SN, Stratas A, McArthur JL, Helmick CA, Westwood DA, Boe SG. Neural and Behavioral Outcomes Differ Following Equivalent Bouts of Motor Imagery or Physical Practice. J Cogn Neurosci. 2020 (8):1590-1606.

Sarah N. Kraeutner, Sarah N. Eppler, Alexandra Stratas, Shaun G. Boe, Generate, maintain, manipulate? Exploring the multidimensional nature of motor imagery, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2020 48,  101673 

McArthur C, Iaboni A. Response to “Do Exercises Prevent Falls Among Older Adults: Where Are We Now? A Systematic Review." Journal of the American Medical Director’s Association. 2020 S1525-8610(20)-30796-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.09.013

McArthur C, Ioannidis G, Jantzi M, Hillier L, Adachi JD, Giangregorio L, Hirdes J, Papaioannou A. (2020) Factors that predict one-year incident hip and non-hip fractures for home care recipients: a linked-data retrospective cohort study. Journal of the American Medical Directors’ Association. S1525-8610 (20) 20729-5. 2020 doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2020.08.023.

McArthur C, Ioannidis G, Jantzi M, Hillier L, Adachi JD, Giangregorio L, Hirdes J, Papaioannou A. Development and validation of the Fracture Risk Scale Home Care (FRS-HC) that predicts one-year incident fracture: an electronic record-linked longitudinal cohort study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2020 21:499. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03529-2

McArthur C, Ioannidis G, Jantzi M, Hillier L, Adachi JD, Giangregorio L, Hirdes J, Papaioannou A.  Development and validation of the Fracture Risk Scale Home Care (FRS-HC) that predicts one-year incident fracture: an electronic record-linked longitudinal cohort study. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 21:499. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03529-2

Papaioannou A, Ioannidis G, McArthur C, Hillier LM, Feldman S, Giangregorio L, Jaglal S, Jain R, Van der Horst ML, & Adachi, J. (2020) Preventing Fractures in Long-Term Care: Translating Recommendations to Clinical Practice. Journal of the American Medical Directors’ Association. S1525-8610(20)30592-2. doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2020.07.003

Ponzano M, Gibbs J, Templeton JA, Adachi JD, Ashe M, Cheung A, Hill K, Kendler D, McArthur C, Papaioannou A, Prasad S, Thabane L, Wark J, Giangregorio L. Exploring fear of falling and exercise self-efficacy in older women with vertebral fractures. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity. 2020 August 19;1-6. 10.1123/japa.2019-0485

Smith A, Belgrave Sookhoo J, McArthur C, Surlin S, Akinyemi A, Zheng R, Gardner P, Papaioannou A. “Think of it like a game”: the perspectives of older adults and health professionals on interactive exercise technology design. PhysiotherapyCanada. Published Online: October 05, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3138/ptc-2019-0115

Book chapter

Wallace L, Theou O, Rockwood K. Frailty, cognition & falls. In M Montero-Odasso, R Camicioli (Eds.) Falls and Cognition in Older Persons: Fundaments, Assessment and Therapeutic Options. Springer Nature. (2020)

Research Activities

M Mackay-Lyons. (By invitation) Member, National Strategic Research Committee Can Physiotherapy Association (CPA) to provide strategic direction for physiotherapy research and knowledge exchange in Canada.

M Mackay-Lyons. (By invitation) Member, CanStroke Recovery Platform to advance stroke recovery and rehabilitation through research and knowledge translation.    

Grant

A Quigley - Co-applicant. Operating Grant, Connecting Health Assessments with INterventions for Healthy Aging with HIV (CHAIN Study): Advancing the Utility of a Short-Form HIV Disability Questionnaire (SF-HDQ) for use in Community-Based Settings (Awarded) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Total: $450,000.00     

Presentations     

C McArthur. British Society of Gerontology - Care Home Special Interest Group - Autumn Symposium. “Exercise to prevent falls and fracture in long-term care for residents with dementia.” November 24, 2020. 

M Mackay-Lyons. Plenary session Exercise and stroke prevention for persons post stroke living in the community.  Quebec Stroke Virtual Summit. October, 2020

M Mackay-Lyons. Relation between exercise and cognition. Quebec Stroke Virtual Summit. October, 2020

A. Aiken. Women's Leadship Collaborative Panel. Halifax Convention Centre, October 29, 2020

C McArthur. Geriatric Training Program, Regional Geriatric Program Central (Ontario). “Exercise and physical activity for older adults”. October 9, 2020.