Urvashy Gopaul

Dr. Urvashy Gopaul

KITE Research, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Post Doctoral Fellow, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Cana...

Biography

Dr Urvashy Gopaul is a postdoctoral fellow at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada. Dr. Gopaul graduated with a B.S. (Hons) Physiotherapy (University of Mauritius, 2008), M.S. Physiotherapy (Neurorehabilitation) (University of Nottingham, U.K., 2014), and her Ph.D. in Physiotherapy (University of Newcastle, Australia, 2019). Dr. Gopaul was a senior lecturer leading the physiotherapy program at the University of Mauritius. Dr. Gopaul has strong research interests in the development of complex interventions combining sensory and motor training to improve upper limb function as well as the development of assessment tools for grasp deficits in stroke rehabilitation. Her postdoctoral research focuses on investigating the robotic assessment and training of upper limb deficits after stroke and other neurological conditions. Additionally, Dr. Gopaul is investigating neuromodulation modalities such as spinal cord stimulation on people with spinal cord injury. Dr. Gopaul is a member of the Association of Physiotherapy (Mauritius).

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Toronto Rehabilitation Institute

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

KITE Research

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