Latest News and Events
2024!
Brock was well represented at OBC 2024! The HolmesLab had 10 talks/posters and Brock had the 2nd largest attendance at the meeting! The Brock group! MSc. Student Meera Sayal and her first conference poster! PhD Candidate Kailynn Mannella presenting her work on Robotic Rehabilitation in... read more
2023 Recap!
2023 was a busy year for our lab! We welcomed new students and saw old ones graduate. Past students have found employment at such places as Amazon, Ford and Professional Baseball (MLB) to name a few! Attending the ISBS 2023 Conference. Dr. Mike Sonne, Ryan Bench, Dr. Tyler Dobos, Dr. Mike Holmes We attended numerous conferences (ISBS, ACE, HFES, endMS, RehabWeek and OBC) and students were nominated for awards! Including Daniel Cousins (PhD student) winning best translation paper at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference. PhD Student Daniel Cousins presenting at HFES. Work in partnership with GM. The HolmesLab at OBC 2023! Students at the 2023 Association of Canadian Ergonomists Conference Dr. Holmes participated in a workshop at RehabWeek in Singapore and spoke at the endMS 2023 conference in... read more
Lab attends International Society of Biomechanics Conference in Calgary (ISB 2019)
Our lab and a contingent of Biomechanics researchers from Brock University attended the International Society of Biomechanics Conference in Calgary (ISB 2019), July 31-August 4, 2019. It was a great event and Brock was well represented! We had a mix of posters and oral presentations and all of our students did a fantastic job! 🙂 ... read more
Lab attends ISEK and CSB!
It was a busy summer for the lab with students attending the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology Conference (ISEK) in Dublin and the Canadian Society for Biomechanics (CSB) Conference in Halifax. Graduate student Garrick Forman won the best poster award for ISEK!! Way to go Garrick! PhD Student, Davis Forman had an oral presentation on our exciting work investigating biceps brachii excitability with changes in forearm posture and biceps muscle... read more
Ontario Biomechanics Conference 2018
Our group attended the 2018 Ontario Biomechanics Conference this past weekend. The Holmes lab is also attending ISEK and CSB later this summer. Everyone is busy these days! But OBC is always a fun... read more
New Publication!
Congrats to PhD Student Davis Forman on a new publication!
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New Publications!
Congrats to former MHSc. Graduate student Mahboobeh Hosseinian!
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Quantifying Upper Extremity Postures and Muscle Activity During IV Pole Use
This work is lead by graduate student Victoria Breitner. The Holmes Lab has partnered with Lakeridge Health and Notion Medical Inc. to evaluate a new ergonomically designed IV Pole. Dr. Holmes was recently invited to present this work at the 2014 HealthAchieve Conference.
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Quantifying physical demands in the workplace: Using occupational biomechanics to identify mechanisms of injury
Dr. Holmes was recently a symposium speaker at the 2014 Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology Conference, held in St. John’s NL.
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