STaRLab research purpose

The driver for our research programme is the need to make current physical therapy interventions even better than they are now so that many more people can resume the activities they did before they had a stroke.  Research activity is focused on the identification, development and evaluation of physical therapies to enhance recovery of movement after stroke.   Our studies are designed to contribute to knowledge of:

• how the nervous system recovers after stroke;
• how recovery may be ‘driven’ through the provision of physical therapies;
• what doses of physical therapies are needed for optimum recovery;    
• which physical therapies may be most suitable for which stroke survivors.

To do this we combine clinical, neurophysiological and biomechanical investigation of the production and control of movement. 

Principal Investigator
Professor Valerie Pomeroy PhD, BA, GradDipPhys, FCSP

STaRLab Members
Elisabetta Colucci
Celia Clarke
Tracy Cowles
Nicola Hancock
Niamh Kennedy
Andrew Walker

StaRLab Associates	STaRLab Collaborators
Dr Simon Horton	Professor Jean-Claude Baron
Dr Martin Watson	Dr Jane Burridge
Dr Jane Cross	Professor Philip Rowe
Dr Lucy O'Driscoll	Professor Duncan Turner
Dr Allan Clark	Dr Elizabeth Warburton
Dr Fiona Poland	Dr Chris Ugbolue
Dr Guy Peryer	Dr Susan Hunter
Ruth Turk	Dr Catherine Lang
Ingrid Whatmough	William Winterbotham

STaRLab Location, accessibility and contact details:

STaRLab is located on the ground floor of the MED Building at UEA adjacent to the Clinical Research Trials Unit.  Vehicle access is available right outside the entrance door and parking spaces are within a few yards over level ground.  We are therefore accessible to people who experience mobility limitations.

Contact details are:

Simona Florescu

PA to Professor Valerie Pomeroy
Faculty of Health
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ

Tel: + 44 (0)1603 593959
Email: s.florescu@uea.ac.uk