Contracture after spinal cord injury
Grant recipient: Dr Joanna Diong, APAM
Project title: Contracture after spinal cord injury – a prospective cohort study.
Year awarded: 2009
PRF grant: Tagged Grant
Dr Joanna Diong is a physiotherapist and early career researcher with broad interests in mechanics of human movement and clinical epidemiology. She completed her PhD in 2012 on the incidence and mechanisms of contracture (loss of joint range of motion) after spinal cord injury. She is now a Lecturer in musculoskeletal anatomy at Sydney Medical School and Honorary Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
Project title: Contracture after spinal cord injury – a prospective cohort study.
Year awarded: 2009
PRF grant: Tagged Grant