The Syncrude Centre for Motion and Balance (SCMB) is unique in Canada. The Centre provides a continuum of care in one facility, moving clients (primarily adults) with complex dizziness, balance disorders, and problems with walking from assessment through diagnosis to rehabilitation.
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The Syncrude Centre for Motion and Balance (SCMB) serves adults and children but has expertise with all age groups and provides two main groups of service:
Motion analysis uses a non-invasive, state-of-the-art motion capture system that obtains, analyzes, and displays three-dimensional data of patients while they are walking. These technologies include motion capture, high-speed video, and foot pressure measurement to give clinicians in the multidisciplinary team a better understanding of how clients walk, often referred to as clinical gait analysis. The clinical team uses information gathered from the motion analyses to help guide a patient’s course of treatment and its outcome. The team is involved in a number of research studies from core muscle activity in sitting balance, to analysis of gesturing.
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Vestibular disorders are not uncommon. Testing is required to determine whether a patient does have a vestibular disorder and how the patient can be treated. A team of highly qualified therapists who use state-of-the-art technology, for example, Videonystagmography (VNG), Rotary Chair, Computerized Dynamic Posturography (CDP) and inVision testing assess clients presenting with inner ear and balance issues that make up Balance Services.
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The Syncrude Centre for Motion and Balance often partners with post-secondary institutions in Alberta and other Alberta Health Services programs to educate medical students, otolaryngology and physiatry residents, audiology and physical therapy students, and clinicians.
The Syncrude Centre for Motion & Balance Teams are involved in several research studies, from core muscle activity in sitting balance to gesture analysis. The team generates various research studies internally; however, external researchers who wish to collaborate with the GRH teams are encouraged to bring their ideas forward to the Glenrose Research office.
