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DIESEL at the Association of Canadian Ergonomists Conference

This week, Professor Clark Dickerson is headed to Raleigh, North Carolina for the 40th annual American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) Conference.

The DIESEL team is heading to Hamilton, Ontario this week for the 2016 Canadian Society for Biomechanics (CSB) Conference! This bi-annual conference brings biomechanists and ergonomists from across Canada together to present research on a wide variety of topics that focus on engineering, rehabilitation science, and kinesiology.

This past week, a few members of DIESEL travelled to Winterthur, Switzerland, for the 11th Conference of the International Shoulder Group!

Congratulations to Carmen Liang for successfully proposing her Masters (MSc) thesis topic on Wednesday, June 29th. Carmen is focusing on manual matering handling (MMH) tasks, and how they are designed for workers across all body types. She hopes that her research will help to quantify shoulder strategies for workers of all body compositions, as well as inform future MMH task design.

Jackie successfully proposed her Masters (MSc) thesis on Wednesday, June 15th. Her topic is focusing on breast cancer survivors who have completed treatment but are experiencing shoulder pain and dysfunction. Over the next year, Jackie hopes to quantify some of that dysfunction with her research and inform future rehabilitation strategies for this population.