college of rehabilitation sciences News Archive
![Profiles of Stephanie Van Haute and Corrine Clyne.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Van-Haute-and-Clyne-v2-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady PhD students receive inaugural Indigenous fellowships
July 18, 2024 —
The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences has named the first recipients of its Indigenous Graduate Fellowship.
![Marnie Courage teaches a male client to safely use new bathing equipment after an assessment of his home.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Marnie-Courage-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Enabling Inclusion
July 17, 2024 —
Disability rights have long been a passion for Marnie Courage [BA/96, BMROT/00]. While studying arts at UM in the 1990s, she had a job in community respite services, supporting people with physical and intellectual disabilities.
![Physician checks out toddler being held by mom.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/OHS-Meet-and-Greet-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Ongomiizwin – Health Services welcome gathering
July 11, 2024 —
Discover Ongomiizwin - Health Services and its commitment to equity in health care.
![Margaret Hart stands in the Brodie atrium at Bannatyne campus.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Margaret-Hart-atrium-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Community, Culture, Curriculum
July 9, 2024 —
Margaret Hart’s [M.Ed./21] career took an unexpected turn when she joined the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences in 2022.
![Camila Oda Jallime standing next to her research poster in brodie atrium](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/claudia-camila-oda-jallime-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Grad students showcase their health research, network at annual event on Bannatyne
July 8, 2024 —
More than 180 graduate students presented their work in a poster competition, networked with colleagues and mentors, heard from innovative speakers and were recognized for their accomplishments through awards presentations during this years’ annual Manitoba Student Health Research Forum (MSHRF), June 17-19. “This year it was bigger and better,” said Dr. Samantha Pauls
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Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Winnipeg Free Press: Researchers aim to end sports environments raising women’s injury risk
June 28, 2024 —
Researchers aim to end sports environments raising women’s injury risk
![Illustration of diverse people exercising outdoors](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Hero-image-sized-for-web-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
New international virtual lab aspires to create gender equity in sport and exercise
June 27, 2024 —
A new virtual lab developed by researchers at the University of Manitoba and the University of Nottingham aims to generate new solutions for gender equity in sport and physical activity.
![Four young women wearing different-coloured t-shirts perform movement exercises inside a church.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Parkinsons-workshop-2-web-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Students lead wellness workshop for Parkinson’s community
June 24, 2024 —
An interprofessional group of Rady Faculty of Health Sciences students led a workshop recently for more than 40 people living with Parkinson’s disease and their care partners.
![Group photo of faculty at the 2024 Faculty Recognition Reception](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Faculty-Recognition-Reception-89-1-150x150.jpg)
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
Recognizing faculty excellence
June 6, 2024 —
On May 21, over 30 faculty were recognized for exceptional teaching, research and service at a reception held at Marshall McLuhan in UMSU University Centre.
![A physiotherapist doing physical exercises with a patient's leg.](https://news.umanitoba.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iStock-1079107724-physical-therapy-150x150.jpg)
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Publicly funded physio assessments drop 85 per cent since 2017, suggests some patients ‘falling through the cracks’: UM study
June 5, 2024 —
A new study led by UM researchers has found that initial physiotherapy assessments conducted per month in Winnipeg have dropped by 85 per cent since services were consolidated seven years ago raising alarm bells that some populations who require physio services -but cannot afford a private clinic- are failing to receive vital assessments and treatment.