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Monica Maly

 

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PhD 2004 Queen’s University
BScPT (Hons) 1998 & MSc 2000

 

I did my PhD research in The School of Rehabilitation Therapy with Dr. Patrick Costigan  at Queen’s University.  My doctoral work focused on examining the determinants of mobility in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA).  I used laboratory (gait analysis, strength capacity assessment, radiographic malalignment assessment), clinical (objective performance and self-report measures) and qualitative methods (phenomenology) to examine mobility from multiple perspectives.  I then moved on to a one-year postdoctoral position at the Arthritis Community Research and Evaluation Unit at the Toronto Western Research Institute and University of Toronto, with Dr. Cheryl Cott and Dr. Elizabeth Badley.  In this year, I examined the process whereby people recognize the onset of OA to examine whether these experiences would be useful for early detection of the disease. Upon completing this post-doctoral position, I started my position at the University of Western Ontario.

 

Selected Publications 

1)      Maly, M.R., Krupa, T.  (in press).  Personal experience of living with knee osteoarthritis among older adults.  Disability and Rehabilitation.

 

2)      Maly, M.R., Costigan, P.A., Olney, S.J.  (2006).  Role of knee kinematics and kinetics on performance and disability in people with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis.  Clinical Biomechanics 21, 1051-1059

 

3)      Maly, M.R., Costigan, P.A., Olney, S.J. (2006).  Predictors of functional self-efficacy in knee osteoarthritis.  Arthritis and Rheumatism (Arthritis Care and Research) 55, 94-101

 

4)      Maly, M.R., Costigan, P.A., Olney, S.J. (2006).  Determinants of self-report measures in people with knee osteoarthritis.  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 87, 96-104.

 

5)      Maly, M.R., Costigan, P.A., Olney, S.J.  (2005)  Contribution of psychosocial and mechanical variables to mobility outcome measures in knee OA.  Physical Therapy 85, 1318-1328.

 

6)      Maly, M.R., Culham, E.G., Costigan, P.A. (2002).  Static and dynamic biomechanics of foot orthoses in people with medial compartment knee osteoarthritis.  Clinical Biomechanics 17, 603-610.

 

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