We are joined for this Season 2 opening episode by Bean Gill - advocate, entrepreneur, and wheelchair user. Join us for a great conversation around accessibility, technology, and Bean's own journey.

Connect with Bean

www.callmebean.com @branzoid on Instagram and TikTok

www.reyu.ca

@bollywheels on Instagram

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We're back - with our fearless leader, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell! Join us for an episode full of history, science, and...pee?! Dr. Ferguson-Pell is a co-Principal Investigator of the Rehab Robotics Lab and sat down with our host, Emily Armstrong, to talk career inspiration, how biomechanics has changed over time, and how his work has progressed with technology advances.

You never know what you'll learn next!

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And as always, if you're interested in learning more, check out some of these papers:

Shiferaw, W.S., Akalu, T.Y., Mulugeta, H. et al. The global burden of pressure ulcers among patients with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 21, 334 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03369-0

MacDuff, H., Armstrong, E., & Ferguson-Pell, M. (2022). Technologies measuring manual wheelchair propulsion metrics: a scoping review. Assistive Technology, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2022.2075488

L. Qi, S. Guan, L. Zhang, H. -L. Liu, C. -K. Sun and M. Ferguson-Pell, "The Effect of Fatigue on Wheelchair Users’ Upper Limb Muscle Coordination Patterns in Time-Frequency and Principal Component Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 2096-2102, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3119359.

Sacco, I. C. N., Trombini-Souza, F., & Suda, E. Y. (2023). Impact of biomechanics on therapeutic interventions and rehabilitation for major chronic musculoskeletal conditions: A 50-year perspective. Journal of biomechanics, 154, 111604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111604

Welcome back to Rehab Gab! Today we are joined by Dr. Danielle Peers, a Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, former Team Canada Paralympic wheelchair basketball athlete, and the Academic Lead on Equity Praxis and Systemic Ableism at the University of Alberta. They join us to extend our conversation on Breaking Barriers - systemic ableism in academia, healthcare, and technology. Sarcasm may be the language of choice here, but don't let it detract from the importance of this conversation. If you have anything to add to this topic, leave us a comment, send us an email, or tag us in a response post!

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As always, you can read more on our discussion topic with the following sources:

Feldner, H. A., Evans, H. D., Chamblin, K., Ellis, L. M., Harniss, M. K., Lee, D., & Woiak, J. (2022). Infusing disability equity within rehabilitation education and practice: A qualitative study of lived experiences of ableism, allyship, and healthcare partnership. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 3, 947592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.947592

Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Howe, P. D., & Silva, C. F. (2021). Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38(3), 209-217. Retrieved Mar 4, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0093

A. Shew, "Ableism, Technoableism, and Future AI," in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 40-85, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/MTS.2020.2967492.

Korpela, R. A., Siirtola, T. O., & Koivikko, M. J. (1992). The cost of assistive devices for children with mobility limitation. Pediatrics, 90(4), 597–602.

Leslie Berntsen, Ableism and assistive technology. Science 3:81, 1057-1057(2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.adj4475

https://crippledscholar.com/2015/07/04/when-celebrating-accessible-technology-is-just-reinforcing-ableism/

And please make sure to check out more of Dr. Peers' work: http://www.daniellepeers.com/