Research Project
Liz Bye
Current Appointments
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Elizabeth Bye (BAppSc PT, PhD) trained as a physiotherapist at the University of Sydney and worked as a clinician for almost 10 years at Prince of Wales Hospital where she specialised in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. She obtained her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2020 completing her research at NeuRA and the Kolling Institute. The focus of her thesis was on strengthening of partially paralysed muscles following a spinal cord injury. This involved a multi-centred international randomised controlled trial across Australia and India, investigating the efficacy of a strengthening intervention. Further, she studied the mechanisms at play responsible for strength gains in neurologically weak muscles using an MRI technique, diffusor tensor imaging (DTI), and assessed the reliability of a commonly used strength measurement tool.
Elizabeth has also been involved in trials assessing abdominal electrical stimulation to assist with ventilator weaning in critical illness. She now works as a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre at NeuRA. Elizabeth’s current projects investigate the effect of transcutaneous spinal stimulation (TSS) combined with locomotor training on walking ability as well as exploring some of the methodological aspects of TSS and the corresponding response of lower limb reflexes.
Publications
2023
Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve
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2023
Transcutaneous spinal stimulation in people with and without spinal cord injury: Effect of electrode placement and trains of stimulation on threshold intensity
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2022 Jun
Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation combined with locomotor training to improve walking ability in people with chronic spinal cord injury: study protocol for an international multi-centred double-blinded randomised sham-controlled trial (eWALK)
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2021
MRI-based Measurement of Effects of Strength Training on Intramuscular Fat in People with and without Spinal Cord Injury
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2021
The inter-rater reliability of the 13-point manual muscle test in people with spinal cord injury
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2019
A preliminary investigation of mechanisms by which short-term resistance training increases strength of partially paralysed muscles in people with spinal cord injury
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2019
Abdominal functional electrical stimulation to assist ventilator weaning in critical illness: a double-blinded, randomised, sham-controlled pilot study
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2017
Strength training for partially paralysed muscles in people with recent spinal cord injury: A within-participant randomised controlled trial
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