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Dr Jasmine Menant

Dr Jasmine Menant
Phone
93991267

Dr Menant is a Research Fellow within the Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre at NeuRA and a Conjoint Lecturer within the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW. She has a PhD in applied physiology / biomechanics from UNSW. Her research aims to investigate and improve balance, mobility, physical function and falls in ageing and clinical populations with motor and cognitive impairments. To this aim, she conducts experimental trials, longitiudinal studies and randomised-controlled trials.

Dr Menant is also actively engaged in research translation. She sits on the Executive Board of the Australia New-Zealand Falls Prevention Society and is currently leading the update of the Best Practice National Falls Prevention Guidelines for Community settings. She is also the co-editor of the International Society of Posture and Gait Research online Blog. 

Research Interests:
Her research interests are threefold: (i) understanding risk factors for falls in older people and clinical groups; (ii) investigating sensory, cognitive and neuromuscular factors contributing to postural stability, stepping and gait in aging and clinical populations; (iii) undertaking clinical trials to determine the effects of exercise interventions on falls and other health outcomes in ageing and clinical groups.

Broad Research Areas:
Ageing, Physiology, Neuroscience, Gerontology - Geriatrics, Biomechanics

Qualifications:
BSc Hons, PhD

Specific Research Keywords:
Falls prevention, Sensory Mechanisms, Balance, Biomechanics, Human Movement and Sensation; Gait; Ageing; 


Research activities

My current research projects include:

Randomised-controlled trials

- An interactive step training RCT to reduce falls in people with Multiple Sclerosis

- SAFE-PD (Stepping to avoid falls events in people with Parkinson’s disease)

- Cognitive-only and cognitive-motor training to prevent falls in older people

- Exercise rehabilitation for cancer survivors with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: Impact and mechanisms

Mechanistic studies

- Mechanistic studies investigating the role of visuo-spatial working memory in balance and gait control in ageing, fall risk and Parkinson’s Disease

- Muscle contributions to gait pattern in in people with Multiple Sclerosis

 


Selected Publications

Journal articles

Lim ML; van Schooten KS; Radford KA; Menant J; Lord SR; Sachdev PS; Brodaty H; Delbaere K, 2020, 'The Iconographical Falls Efficacy Scale (IconFES) in community-dwelling older people-a longitudinal validation study.', Age Ageing, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaa213