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Overview

Mark G. Carpenter is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research encompasses several interconnected domains primarily within medicine, health professions, and neuroscience, with significant emphasis on physical therapy, sports therapy, and rehabilitation.

The main fields of study for Carpenter include:

  • Medicine
  • Health Professions
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, Carpenter's work is further specialized in several subfields, notably:

  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
  • Neurology
  • Biomedical Engineering

The primary research topics addressed by Carpenter cover various aspects of human balance, motor control, and sensory processing:

  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Effects of Vibration on Health
  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention

Carpenter has contributed to scholarly literature in a number of frequently published venues including:

  • The Journal of Physiology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Neuroscience Letters
  • Human Movement Science
  • Ear and Hearing

Among Carpenter's recent papers are:

  • "The Quest for Ecological Validity in Hearing Science: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Advance It" (2020, Ear and Hearing)
  • "Selective preservation of changes to standing balance control despite psychological and autonomic habituation to a postural threat" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Postural threat increases sample entropy of postural control" (2023, Frontiers in Neurology)
  • "Initial experience of balance assessment introduces 'first trial' effects on emotional state and postural control" (2021, Gait & Posture)
  • "Cortical potentials time-locked to discrete postural events during quiet standing are facilitated during postural threat exposure" (2023, The Journal of Physiology)

Frequent collaborators in Carpenter's research include:

  • J. Timothy Inglis
  • Kyle J. Missen
  • Allan L. Adkin
  • Romeo Chua
  • Martin Zaback

Best Publications

  • The clinical utility of posturography

    Jasper E. Visser;Mark G. Carpenter;Herman van der Kooij;Bastiaan R. Bloem

  • The influence of postural threat on the control of upright stance.

    Mark G. Carpenter;James S. Frank;Cathy P. Silcher;Gary W. Peysar

  • Trunk Sway Measures of Postural Stability During Clinical Balance Tests Effects of Age

    J. Gill;J. H. J. Allum;M. G. Carpenter;M. Held-Ziolkowska

  • Proprioceptive control of posture: a review of new concepts

    J.H.J. Allum;B.R. Bloem;M.G. Carpenter;M. Hulliger

  • Age-dependent variations in the directional sensitivity of balance corrections and compensatory arm movements in man

    J. H. J. Allum;M. G. Carpenter;M. G. Carpenter;F. Honegger;A. L. Adkin;A. L. Adkin

  • Fear of falling modifies anticipatory postural control

    Allan L. Adkin;James S. Frank;Mark G. Carpenter;Gerhard W. Peysar

  • Postural abnormalities to multidirectional stance perturbations in Parkinson’s disease

    M G Carpenter;J H J Allum;F Honegger;A L Adkin

  • Is lower leg proprioception essential for triggering human automatic postural responses

    B.R. Bloem;J.H.J. Allum;M.G. Carpenter;F. Honegger

  • Surface height effects on postural control: a hypothesis for a stiffness strategy for stance.

    Mark G. Carpenter;James S. Frank;Cathy P. Silcher

  • The impact of comorbid disease and injuries on resource use and expenditures in parkinsonism

    J.C. Pressley;E.D. Louis;M.-X. Tang;L. Cote

  • Directional sensitivity of stretch reflexes and balance corrections for normal subjects in the roll and pitch planes.

    Mark G. Carpenter;J. H. J. Allum;Flurin Honegger

  • Trunk sway measures of postural stability during clinical balance tests: effects of a unilateral vestibular deficit.

    J.H.J Allum;A.L Adkin;M.G Carpenter;M Held-Ziolkowska

  • Shifting the balance: evidence of an exploratory role for postural sway

    M.G. Carpenter;C.D. Murnaghan;J.T. Inglis

  • The relationship between fear of falling and human postural control.

    Justin R. Davis;Adam D. Campbell;Allan L. Adkin;Mark G. Carpenter

  • Triggering of balance corrections and compensatory strategies in a patient with total leg proprioceptive loss.

    B. R. Bloem;J. H. J. Allum;M. G. Carpenter;J. J. G. M. Verschuuren

  • Postural, physiological and psychological reactions to challenging balance: does age make a difference?

    Mark G. Carpenter;Allan L. Adkin;Lawrence R. Brawley;James S. Frank

  • Does increased postural threat lead to more conscious control of posture

    Jennifer L. Huffman;B. C. Horslen;M. G. Carpenter;Allan L. Adkin

  • Influence of postural anxiety on postural reactions to multi-directional surface rotations

    Mark G. Carpenter;James S. Frank;Allan L. Adkin;Alison Paton

  • The influence of postural threat on the cortical response to unpredictable and predictable postural perturbations

    Allan L. Adkin;Adam D. Campbell;Romeo Chua;Mark G. Carpenter

  • A speedy solution for balance and gait analysis: angular velocity measured at the centre of body mass.

    John H. J. Allum;Mark G. Carpenter

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Timothy Inglis
J. Timothy Inglis University of British Columbia
John H. J. Allum
John H. J. Allum University of Basel
Romeo Chua
Romeo Chua University of British Columbia
Ian M. Franks
Ian M. Franks University of British Columbia
Martin J. McKeown
Martin J. McKeown University of British Columbia
Ivan Toni
Ivan Toni Radboud University
Mark R. Beauchamp
Mark R. Beauchamp University of British Columbia
Josep Valls-Solé
Josep Valls-Solé University of Barcelona
Peter R.E. Crocker
Peter R.E. Crocker University of British Columbia

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