Our ongoing studies you can volunteer for
People with COPD often experience breathlessness. This is due to the swelling and narrowing of the airways, making it harder to move air in and out. Breathlessness can also happen if the muscles around your lungs are not working as well as they should. When this happens, it can make it harder for air to […]
People with COPD often experience breathlessness. This is due to the swelling and narrowing of the airways, making it harder to move air in and out. The aim of this study is to interview people with COPD to gain insight into what it feels like to live with breathlessness. As this will help improve our […]
We want to understand whether a new form of physiotherapy could be effective for people with knee osteoarthritis who have not benefited from current physiotherapy treatment. This new form of physiotherapy aims to teach patients how to stand and move with less muscle tension in their knees and throughout their body. It also teaches patients […]
We plan to run a large study to to understand whether a new form of physiotherapy could be effective for people with knee osteoarthritis who have not benefited from current physiotherapy treatment. In this current study, we want to give physiotherapists the opporunity to practice delivering the treatment before they start the large study. This […]
People with asthma can experience breathing difficulties for two reasons. The first is that tubes to the lungs become narrowed and swollen – this is treated using inhalers. The second reason is that the muscles around the lungs are not working properly. For example, the diaphragm is a big flat muscle under the lungs (see […]
The aim of the study is to understand how people move when they run and why people run the way they do. If we can understand running in more depth, we can provide immediate feedback to people who may not have optimal postural control and muscle coordination which may put them at greater risk of […]