Motor Impairment

Proprioception: our opinion piece on proprioception has evoked debate. journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11… Now we need to consider exactly what is 'low' level and 'high' level proprioception. There will be a spectrum!

A groundbreaking trial is helping wheelchair-bound Victorians to their feet. Researchers are applying electrical currents to a patient's spinal cord, to try to reconnect their body and brain. youtu.be/KnVbKTtl3Nw Trial information: bit.ly/3Rk5Go8 @JackieQuist7 #7NEWS

Journal of Neurophysiology: our study shows poor statistics, poor data presentation, and spin persist despite updated Author Guidelines: stronger strategic measures are needed. ow.ly/qwBP50QfNh1

Spinal cord injury #SCI: new review ow.ly/F8WJ50P7fj4 Hydrotherapy: Only 3 RCTs with only 71 participants. Overall, low methodological quality and a high risk of bias. So more work needed

International Research Integrity Conference. I am arranging this in Sydney in November 16-18th 2025. researchintegrityconf.com Note the excellent speaker list. Contact me. I am also moving to Bsky too @SimonGandevia.bsky.social

I have moved from X to Bluesky @simongandevia.bsky.social

Motor Impairment Conference in Amsterdam 2025. Check Motorimpairment.org Plenty of dodgy science in Australia (e.g. at UNSW). New report exposes the well-known problems. Auditor's scathing report on NHMRC: ow.ly/zKlc50UlnMc

RETRACTIONS AUSTRALIA: our website documents retractions by authors with an Australian affiliation. It has recently been updated. Keep an eye on the top 10! retractions.au

Proprioception: our view is that there are low- and high-levels of proprioception - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35142561/. Some key tests of this are reported in our recent paper in the Journal of Physiology. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38734987/ #JPhysiol

Our recent short summary of 3 papers on acute intermittent hypoxia as a way to increase output to muscles. ow.ly/Ff1w50SB7Ow Further work is needed in our view.

DIET and EXERCISE in people with knee osteoarthritis: bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/10/… Good effect with very low energy diet. Treating physiotherapist do not seem to have been blinded to allocation.

New study on diet and exercise in people with osteoarthritis: ow.ly/iAOO50Rvja3 Good effect with very low energy diet. Treating physiotherapist do not seem to have been blinded to allocation.

Dario Farina and Simon Gandevia: our new review on motor control In J Physiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Brain stimulation and exercise: Markus Amann (@UofU_Anesthesia), Simranjit Sidhu (@UniofAdelaide), Chris McNeil (@UBC_HES), and SimonGandevia (@Neuraustralia) have written a letter of response to da Silva Machado and Amiri. @JPhysiol physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP…

Research Integrity? UNSW takes > 2 years for preliminary assessment of its brain researchers! Conflict of interest drives self-regulation by universities. Australia needs an independent research integrity office to weed out scientific misconduct. abc.net.au/news/science/2…

ALS Motoneurone disease: review reveals potential biomarkers derived from a comprehensive nerve excitability battery - TROND. ow.ly/cIw350QfNQJ

New review summarises the use of an upper limb profiling approach to quantify upper limb performance and motor impairment - across ageing, stroke, MS and Parkinson's disease @JPhysiol ow.ly/3wXs50QfNbk

Third International Motor Impairment Conference in Sydney: First day now! Programme book here: motorimpairment.org/home/conferenc… Enjoy - feedback please

Chronic pain: new insight into how a voltage-gated sodium channel isoform 1.7 can be targetted to reduce pain in rat models. Just out in #PNAS ow.ly/5Qtu50PvqvR

Third International Motor Impairment Conference: Sydney 20-22 November 2023. Late abstracts are being accepted till 1st September. ow.ly/K3zK50PtGBk Contact us for details motorimpairment.org/contact/