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Exercise for people who are less fit

Darlene Reid

Professor


  • Campus
    • St. George
  • Faculty
    • Temerty Faculty of Medicine
  • Department
    • Physical Therapy

Areas of Expertise

  • Cool devices to evaluate how much muscle recruited during physical activity and signs that it is failing.
  • Dual task performance in people with COPD
  • Exercise for people who are less fit
  • Exercise physiology
  • Hemodynamics and tissue oxygenation during hand grip exercise in people with mitochondrial disease
  • How muscle responds to exercise and is slow to respond or fails to respond when older or if suffering from a chronic disease
  • Image analysis of CT images performed to evaluate thoracic spine and rib cage abnormalities that contribute to pain in people living with COPD
  • Musculoskeletal biology and physiology
  • Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) performed during loaded breathing in healthy men
  • Reconstruction of 3D images from MRIs in order to evaluate regional thigh muscle atrophy in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Tissue deoxygenation during inspiratory threshold loading and biceps loading in people with COPD
  • Why exercise is an important investment for life

Office: (416) 978-0301
Mobile: (647) 919-0273
Website
Email: darlene.reid@utoronto.ca
Media availability: TV, Radio, Print/Online

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