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The Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Cluster (CERC)

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Our Aim

The Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Cluster鈥檚 (CERC) aims are to participate in multi- and inter-disciplinary research and influence policy with the purpose of preventing and managing acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions and injuries and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that contribute towards mitigating morbidity to enhancing health and wellness across the lifespan.

Our Vision

The Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Cluster’s (CERC) vision is to create clinical, community-led, and governmentally-driven solutions for all persons to live a healthy long life, free from preventable suffering and disability caused by musculoskeletal conditions and preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Our Mission

The Clinical Exercise and Rehabilitation Research Cluster (CERC) brings together the expertise and skills of academics, industry, and relevant stakeholders concerned with addressing the following societal issues:

  • Issue 1: Prevent ever-growing prevalence of acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to reduce morbidity and treatment cost, while enhancing quality of life.
  • Issue 2: To manage established acute and chronic musculoskeletal conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to reduce morbidity, mortality and treatment cost of existing conditions and diseases, while enhancing quality of life.
  • Issue 3: Optimise the outcomes in individuals with already established NCD through the development of novel and innovative tools.
  • Issue 4: Understanding the mechanisms, incidence, and prevalence to inform the primary prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in a way that contributes to mitigating morbidity and elevating long-term quality-of-life.
  • Issue 5: Understanding the mechanisms, incidence and prevalence to inform the rehabilitation and management of traumatic and gradual-onset injury in a way that contributes to mitigating morbidity and elevating long-term quality-of-life.
  • Issue 6: Curb local and international health inequalities through appropriate and scientifically-driven prevention and management mechanisms.

Related research degrees

Our research

Reducing Health Inequalities

  • Implementation of a Community-Based Mind-Body (Tae-Bo) Physical Activity Programme on Health-Related Physical Fitness in Rural Black Overweight and Obese Women with Manifest Risk Factors for Multimorbidity
  • Hematologic responses following concurrent Taekwondo and resistance training in under-resourced communities
  • Financial wellness and debt as a predictor of physical wellness and claims

A healthier life for everyone

  • Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, fatness, hemodynamic characteristics, and sedentary behaviour in primary school-aged children.
  • Fitness Changes in Adolescent Girls Following In-School Combined Aerobic and Resistance Exercise: Interaction With Birthweight
  • The triglyceride to high鈥恉ensity lipoprotein ratio identifies children who may be at risk of developing cardiometabolic disease
  • Genetics and exercise health in strength training
  • Responsiveness to endurance training can be partly explained by the number of favourable single nucleotide polymorphisms an individual possesses
  • Establishing a proof of concept for the effects of low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet (LCHFD) and physical activity on body composition in type 2 diabetes
  • Immune Function Response Following a Low-carbohydrate, High-fat Diet (LCHFD) in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
  • Concurrent low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet with/without physical activity does not improve glycaemic control in type 2 diabetics

Obesity prevention and treatment

  • 'At risk' waist-to-height ratio cut-off points recently adopted by NICE and US Department of Defense will unfairly penalize shorter adults. What is the solution?
  • Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically-scaled.
  • The associations between physical activity intensity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and non鈥恆lcoholic fatty liver disease
  • The Hypertriglyceridemic Waist, Waist-to-Height Ratio, and Cardiometabolic Risk
  • Efficacy of Home-Based Callisthenic Resistance Training on Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Overweight Compared to Normal Weight Preadolescents
  • Comparative effects of high-intensity versus moderate-intensity concurrent aerobic and resistance exercise training on obese females
  • Effects of endurance and high intensity training on ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 levels and arterial pressure in obese and normal weight adolescents
  • A novel treatment for sleep apnoea - taking back control for a better life (ongoing with grant funding)

Improving quality of life as we grow older

  • Effects of high-intensity interval training on health-fitness, health related quality of life, and psychological measures in college-aged smokers
  • Effects of aquatic therapy on balance in older adults
  • German volume training for health promotion: Acute vasopressor, pulmonary and metabolic responses
  • Effect of combined aquatic and cognitive training on quality of life, fall self-efficacy, and motor performance in aged with varying cognitive status

Related papers

2023

  • Faraji, Sanaz and Najafabadi, Mahboubeh Ghayour and Zandi, Hassan G and Shaw, Ina (2023) . South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation, 45 (2). pp. 17-27.
  • Ferreira, Simonè and Lategan, Leon and Shaw, Brandon and Shaw, Ina (2023) . Kinesiology, 55 (2). pp. 222-227.
  • Mathunjwa, Musa and Shaw, Ina and Moran, Jason and Sandercock, Gavin R and Brown, Gregory A and Shaw, Brandon S (2023) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (15). p. 6463.
  • Nduduzo, Shandu and Mathunjwa, Musa and Shaw, Brandon and Shaw, Ina (2023) . Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 23 (1). pp. 200-209.
  • Nevill, Alan M and Leahy, Guy D and Mayhew, Jerry and Sandercock, Gavin RH and Myers, Tony and Duncan, Michael J (2023) Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 17 (1). pp. 1-8.
  • Shandu, Nduduzo Msizi and Mathunjwa, Musa Lewis and Shaw, Ina and Shaw, Brandon Stuwart (2023) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (19). p. 6813.
  • Swain, Patrick and James, Emily and Laws, Jonathan M and Strongman, Clare and Haw, Stuart and Barry, Gill and Chung, Henry C and Gordon, Dan (2023) . Sport Sciences for Health, 19 (1). pp. 139-146.
  • Waterworth, Sally and Kerr, Catherine and McManus, Christopher and Chung, Henry and Shaw, Brandon and Shaw, Ina and Sandercock, Gavin (2023) . Pediatric Research, 95 (3). pp. 736-743.

2022

  • Babazadeh-Zavieh, Seyedeh Saeideh and Ansari, Noureddin Nakhostin and Ghotbi, Nastaran and Naghdi, Soofia and Jafar Haeri, Seyed Mohammad and Shaw, Brandon S and Shaw, Ina (2022) . Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 28. p. 100921.
  • Gisour, Bita Bagheri and Najafabadi, Mahboubeh Ghayour and Gharayagh Zandi, Hassan and Shaw, Ina (2022) . Russian Open Medical Journal, 11 (1).
  • Noll, Liam and Mallows, Adrian and Moran, Jason (2022) . International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 95 (2). pp. 331-339.
  • Noll, Liam and Mitham, Kieran and Moran, Jason and Mallows, Adrian (2022) . Physical Therapy in Sport, 58. pp. 141-150.
  • Pepera, Garyfallia and Sandercock, Gavin RH (2022) . International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 29 (5). pp. 1-10.
  • Shandu, Nduduzo Msizi and Mathunjwa, Musa Lewis and Shaw, Brandon and Shaw, Ina (2022) . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (1). p. 653.
  • Shariat, Ardalan and Ghayour Najafabadi, Mahboubeh and Soroush Fard, Zahra and Nakhostin-Ansari, Amin and Shaw, Brandon S (2022) . Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 68. p. 104107.
  • Shaw, Brandon S and Breukelman, Gerrit and Millard, Lourens and Moran, Jason and Brown, Gregory and Shaw, Ina (2022) . Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 106 (7). pp. 777-782.
  • Shaw, Brandon S and Lloyd, Rohan and Da Silva, Monica and Coetzee, Donne and Moran, Jason and Waterworth, Sally PW and Mathunjwa, Musa L and Shaw, Ina (2022) . Frontiers in Physiology, 13. 1025017-.

Our academics

Dr Ina Shaw

Dr Ina Shaw

Cluster lead

Sport Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Professor Gavin Sandercock
Professor Gavin Sandercock

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Dr Brandon Shaw
Dr Brandon Shaw

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Dr Jason Moran
Dr Jason Moran

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Dr Henry Chung
Dr Henry Chung

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Dr Simon Quick
Dr Simon Quick

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Dr Nicholas Clark
Dr Nicholas Clark

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Jay Matthams
Jay Matthams

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

James Roberts
James Roberts

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Kelly Peters
Kelly Peters

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Robynne Gilchrist
Robynne Gilchrist

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

PhD students

Adiele Dube

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Mariam Alnuwaiser
Mariam Alnuwaiser

School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, 糖心Vlog

Research in Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research in our School covers three groups focusing on health and physical activity, sports performance, and the impact of sport on young people's development.
School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Our School specialises in teaching and research in sports and exercise science, including performance and coaching, as well as physiotherapy and sports therapy.
Research degrees in the School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
From physiotherapy to sport and exercise psychology, our range of research degrees cover many aspects of sport, rehabilitation and exercise sciences.

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