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Virtually fall free: Delivering virtual reality-based action simulation training to improve balance and reduce fall risk in children with developmental coordination disorder
Funder: The Waterloo Foundation
Duration: May 2025 - September 2026

Children with DCD often have difficulty balancing and are more likely to trip or fall during everyday activities such as walking and running. AOMI training, a mental practice technique that involves a person watching a video demonstration of a movement whilst simultaneously imagining the physical feelings associated with the movement, has the potential to help these children improve their balance. Our research shows that AOMI training improves performance and learning of upper-limb tasks in children with DCD, and whole-body tasks in healthy adults. Recently, we showed that delivering AOMI training in VR (VR-AOMI training) enhances these benefits. This approach is promising in children with DCD as it is low-cost and combines enjoyable elements of VR gaming with targeted training methods to improve movement competence. However, the effectiveness of VR-AOMI training has not yet been tested in DCD populations. This project aims to address this gap by determining how children with DCD respond to VR-AOMI training designed to improve their balance. This will provide a scientific basis for the development of at-home balance training that could be recommended to improve balance and reduce fall risk for children with DCD.

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Funder: The Kennel Club
Duration: January 2020 - December 2021
An Observational Study to Assess Respiratory Muscle Strength in Healthy Children <6 years of age
Funder: Audentes Therapeutics, Inc.
Duration: August 2019 - July 2020
An Observational Study to Assess Respiratory Muscle Strength in Healthy Children < 6 Years of Age
Funder: Audentes Therapeutics Inc.
Duration: August 2019 - July 2020
Injury Risk in Mixed Gender Football: Adult Football and Futsal
Funder: Football Association
Duration: February 2019 - July 2019
Injury Risk in mixed gender football: adult leagues and boys playing in girls leagues
Funder: Football Association
Duration: January 2019 - July 2019
Summer Studentship - Morvarid Osmani
Funder: The Physiological Society
Duration: July 2018 - August 2018
Travel Grant
Funder: The Physiological Society
Duration: -

Travel Grant to attend European Congress of Sports Science (2018)

Sex-specific effects on HSP72
Funder: Physiological Society
Duration: October 2017 - September 2018
FA mixed gender risk assessment: adult leagues
Funder: Football Association
Duration: September 2017 - February 2018
Travel grant
Funder: The Physiological Society
Duration: -

Travel Grant to attend European Congress of Sport Science (2016)

FA Injury risk in mixed gender football U18
Funder: Football Association (FA)
Duration: September 2015 - February 2017

Assessment of the injury risk in U18 mixed gender football

Injury Risk in Mixed Gender Football U17 -U19
Funder: Football Association
Duration: September 2015 - February 2017
M_Understanding the distinct stroke volume responses to dehydration
Funder: European Hydration Institute
Duration: January 2015 - September 2015
M_Impact of exercise-induced dehydration
Funder: European Hydration Institute
Duration: October 2014 - December 2015
FA Mixed Gender Injury Risk Assessment U15 and U16
Funder: Football Association (FA)
Duration: August 2014 - January 2015

An assessment of the risk of injury in u15 and u16 mixed gender football

Risks versus benefits: should youth football players be encouraged to take creatine?
Funder: UEFA
Duration: July 2014 - March 2015

An investigation of the benefits of taking 8 weeks of creatine monohydrate food supplement on field-based and match performance against the risks to respiratory health markers.

Injury risk in U15 mixed gender football
Funder: Football Association (FA)
Duration: September 2013 - April 2014
Injury risk in U14 mixed gender football
Funder: Football Association (FA)
Duration: September 2012 - February 2013
London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games Knowledge Transfer
Funder: Podium
Duration: July 2011 - December 2012