Exploring Fatigue, Pain and Physical Activity
Exploring Fatigue, Pain and Physical Activity
The Child Health, Exercise and Rest (CHEaR) Lab is a research laboratory at Western University in London ON managed by Dr. Laura Brunton. Other members of the lab include thesis-based MSc and PhD students supervised by Dr. Brunton.
The current research focus of the CHEaR lab is exploring and understanding fatigue and pain experienced by individuals with childhood-onset conditions and possible relationships with physical activity, sleep, pain and mental health.
Other research projects focus on developing novel approaches to increase and support the self-management sk
The current research focus of the CHEaR lab is exploring and understanding fatigue and pain experienced by individuals with childhood-onset conditions and possible relationships with physical activity, sleep, pain and mental health.
Other research projects focus on developing novel approaches to increase and support the self-management skills for youth with cerebral palsy and the development and validation of clinical measures to support comprehensive assessment of clients in clinical practice.
If you have an interest in research related to childhood disability please check out our current studies below to see if you can participate, or subscribe to our contact list to be contacted about studies that you may be eligible to participate in in the future.
Some children and youth with cerebral palsy experience fatigue that impacts their health and day-to-day life activities. At this time, it is difficult to predict who might be impacted by fatigue, and how it will affect their daily lives. It is also unknown when in childhood, or adolescence, fatigue becomes a problem which makes it difficult to provide prevention or treatment opportunities for those at risk for developing significant fatigue. This study will survey up to 600 children and youth with cerebral palsy from age 7 to 18 years, of all ability levels, to determine when fatigue becomes a significant problem and to document the impact it has on their daily life.
If you would like to participate in this study, click here: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ba5uQMyA2wlPE8t
This study aims to investigate the role of physiological risk factors including pain, fatigue, and sleep in the development of internalizing issues in youth with Cerebral Palsy (CP) aged 8 to 18 years. This study will determine whether there are associations between common secondary health symptoms (pain, fatigue, and disordered sleep) and anxiety and depression symptoms in a large sample of youth with CP.
Email Chearlab@uwo.ca for more information about participating in this study.
The program uses Family-Centered Care, relationship building, and coaching to help guide parents how best to help their child. This program has different strategies that therapists can use to connect with families to assist in creating goals, learning, practicing skills, receiving feedback, and helping parents learn how to modify the strategies they use based on how their child performs/develops. The purpose of this study was to measure if the ACM and ACT will be accepted and used as intended by therapists in the Early Childhood Rehabilitation Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.
The Transitional and Lifelong Care (TLC) Program at Parkwood Institute in London, Ontario, is a program unique to Southwestern Ontario that was designed to fill this specific gap between paediatric and adult healthcare and to provide ongoing multidisciplinary coordination of care for people with SB and other childhood-onset disabilities.
This study aims to investigate the effects of participation in a 9-12 week therapeutic horseback riding program for children with cerebral palsy focusing on three aspects of health functioning; psychological, and social and physical. Specifically, looking at overall wellbeing, social inclusion, fatigue and pain levels, social inclusion and perceived independence in daily life roles.
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