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List of works by Lora Giangregorio

"I do not have time. Is there a handout I can use?": combining physicians' needs and behavior change theory to put physical activity evidence into practice

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

"Left to my own devices, I don't know": using theory and patient-reported barriers to move from physical activity recommendations to practice.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

"We get them up, moving, and out the door. How do we get them to do what is recommended?" Using behaviour change theory to put exercise evidence into action for rehabilitation professionals

scientific article published on 25 January 2018

A Higher Proportion of Home Care Recipients Experience Nonhip Fractures Than Long-Term Care Residents

scientific article published on 19 December 2019

A new algorithm to improve assessment of cortical bone geometry in pQCT.

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A population-based analysis of the post-fracture care gap 1996-2008: the situation is not improving.

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A randomized controlled trial of vitamin D dosing strategies after acute hip fracture: no advantage of loading doses over daily supplementation

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A randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: Effects on walking competency

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A randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on body composition

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using the STRATIFY tool for prediction of falls in hospital patients: how well does it work?

scientific article published on October 2008

A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how.

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A tutorial on sensitivity analyses in clinical trials: the what, why, when and how.

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Acceptance of Commercially Available Wearable Activity Trackers Among Adults Aged Over 50 and With Chronic Illness: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Agreement between fragility fracture risk assessment algorithms as applied to adults with chronic spinal cord injury

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An evaluation of the muscle-bone unit theory among individuals with chronic spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 06 September 2011

An examination of school- and student-level characteristics associated with the likelihood of students' meeting the Canadian physical activity guidelines in the COMPASS study.

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

An interdisciplinary knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: study protocol for the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial

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Ankle fractures do not predict osteoporotic fractures in women with or without diabetes

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Appendicular and whole body lean mass outcomes are associated with finite element analysis-derived bone strength at the distal radius and tibia in adults aged 40years and older.

scientific article published on 11 June 2017

Association of larger holes in the trabecular bone at the distal radius in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus compared to controls

scientific article published on January 2012

Associations between health-related quality of life, physical function and pain in older women with osteoporosis and vertebral fracture

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Behavior Change Techniques Present in Wearable Activity Trackers: A Critical Analysis

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Body weight supported treadmill training in acute spinal cord injury: impact on muscle and bone.

scientific article published in November 2005

Body weight-supported treadmill training for patients with hip fracture: a feasibility study

scientific article published on December 2009

Bone loss and muscle atrophy in spinal cord injury: epidemiology, fracture prediction, and rehabilitation strategies

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Build better bones with exercise (B3E pilot trial): results of a feasibility study of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of 12 months of home exercise in older women with vertebral fracture

scientific article published on 08 August 2018

Build better bones with exercise: protocol for a feasibility study of a multicenter randomized controlled trial of 12 months of home exercise in women with a vertebral fracture

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Can body weight supported treadmill training increase bone mass and reverse muscle atrophy in individuals with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury?

scientific article published in June 2006

Can we use accelerometry to monitor balance exercise performance in older adults?

scientific article published on 4 December 2013

Changes in trabecular bone microarchitecture in postmenopausal women with and without type 2 diabetes: a two year longitudinal study

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Comparison of cortical bone measurements between pQCT and HR-pQCT.

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Data withdrawal in randomized controlled trials: Defining the problem and proposing solutions: a commentary.

scientific article published on 4 February 2011

Development and validation of the Fracture Risk Scale (FRS) that predicts fracture over a 1-year time period in institutionalised frail older people living in Canada: an electronic record-linked longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published on September 2017

Development of an equation for calculating vertebral shear failure tolerance without destructive mechanical testing using iterative linear regression

scientific article published on 20 January 2013

Do patients perceive a link between a fragility fracture and osteoporosis?

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Does Muscle Atrophy and Fatty Infiltration Plateau or Persist in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury?

scientific article published on 11 July 2017

Effect of a resistance and balance exercise programme for women with osteoporosis and vertebral fracture: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Evaluating the efficacy of functional electrical stimulation therapy assisted walking after chronic motor incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on bone biomarkers and bone strength

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Exercise for improving age-related hyperkyphotic posture: a systematic review

scientific article published on 09 July 2013

Exercise for improving outcomes after osteoporotic vertebral fracture

scientific article (published 2013-01-31)

Exercise, muscle, and the applied load-bone strength balance

scientific article published on 13 October 2016

Exploring the determinants of fracture risk among individuals with spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

FRAX underestimates fracture risk in patients with diabetes

scientific article published on February 2012

Feasibility study of walking for exercise in individuals living in assisted living settings

scientific article published on October 2013

Fracture risk assessment in long-term care: a survey of long-term care physicians

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Fracture risk in long term care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective observational studies

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Fragility fractures and the osteoporosis care gap: an international phenomenon.

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Hypothesis testing in clinical and basic science research

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Identifying Fallers among Home Care Clients with Dementia and Parkinson's Disease

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Improving reliability of pQCT-derived muscle area and density measures using a watershed algorithm for muscle and fat segmentation

scientific article published on July 2014

Individuals with neurological diseases are at increased risk of fractures within 180 days of admission to long-term care in Ontario

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Intensity is a subjective construct

scientific article published on 09 February 2016

Long-term body-weight-supported treadmill training and subsequent follow-up in persons with chronic SCI: effects on functional walking ability and measures of subjective well-being.

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Measurement of peak impact loads differ between accelerometers - Effects of system operating range and sampling rate

scientific article published on 5 May 2017

Measuring Apparent Trabecular Density and Bone Structure Using Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography at the Tibia: Precision in Participants With and Without Spinal Cord Injury

scientific article published on 13 September 2012

Measuring Marrow Density and Area Using Peripheral Quantitative Computed Tomography at the Tibia: Precision in Young and Older Adults and Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Measuring apparent trabecular structure with pQCT: a comparison with HR-pQCT.

scientific article published on 6 April 2013

Measuring muscle and bone in individuals with neurologic impairment; lessons learned about participant selection and pQCT scan acquisition and analysis.

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Mechanical stimuli and bone health: what is the evidence?

scientific article published on September 2012

Muscle Density and Bone Quality of the Distal Lower Extremity Among Individuals with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

scientific article published on 16 November 2015

Muscle activity, cross-sectional area, and density following passive standing and whole body vibration: A case series

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Musculoskeletal Changes in Women With Spinal Cord Injury

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Osteoporosis exercise knowledge and education in medicine and nursing: response to comments by Nguyen

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Osteoporosis knowledge among individuals with recent fragility fracture

scientific article published on March 2010

Osteoporosis management among residents living in long-term care.

scientific article published on 10 February 2009

Osteoporosis prescribing in long-term care: impact of a provincial knowledge translation strategy

scientific article published on 08 April 2015

Osteoporosis risk perceptions among patients who have sustained a fragility fracture

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Participation in moderate-to-vigorous leisure time physical activity is related to decreased visceral adipose tissue in adults with spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Physical activity as medicine among family health teams: an environmental scan of physical activity services in an interdisciplinary primary care setting

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Physical activity for preventing or managing osteoporosis in men

Physical fitness in older women with osteoporosis and vertebral fracture after a resistance and balance exercise programme: 3-month post-intervention follow-up of a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Pilot and feasibility studies in exercise, physical activity, or rehabilitation research

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

Randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation therapy for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on quality of life and community participation.

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Recommendations for preventing fracture in long-term care

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Reduced loading due to spinal-cord injury at birth results in "slender" bones: a case study.

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Response Letter to the Editor-Diamond et al, JBMR

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

Response to: Some Questions About the Article "The Efficacy and Safety of Vertebral Augmentation: A Second ASBMR Task Force Report"

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Sarcopenic Obesity in Adults With Spinal Cord Injury: A Cross-Sectional Study.

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

Scoping review of physical rehabilitation interventions in long-term care: protocol for tools, models of delivery, outcomes and quality indicators

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Self-report of one-year fracture incidence and osteoporosis prevalence in a community cohort of canadians with spinal cord injury

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Serum 25(OH)D, PTH and correlates of suboptimal 25(OH)D levels in persons with chronic spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Speed of sound in bone at the tibia: is it related to lower limb bone mineral density in spinal-cord-injured individuals?

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

Sublesional Osteoporosis Prevention, Detection, and Treatment: A Decision Guide for Rehabilitation Clinicians Treating Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

article published in 2008

Successful knowledge translation intervention in long-term care: final results from the vitamin D and osteoporosis study (ViDOS) pilot cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Suggestions for Adapting Yoga to the Needs of Older Adults with Osteoporosis

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

The Relationship between Intramuscular Adipose Tissue, Functional Mobility, and Strength in Postmenopausal Women with and without Type 2 Diabetes

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The association between trunk muscle endurance, balance and falls self-efficacy in women with osteoporotic vertebral fractures: an exploratory analysis from a pilot randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

The effects of whole body vibration on pulse wave velocity in men with chronic spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

The importance of physical function to people with osteoporosis

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The influence of intervertebral disc shape on the pathway of posterior/posterolateral partial herniation

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The osteoporosis care gap in Canada

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The role of noninferiority designs in clinical research

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

The use of hip protectors in long-term care facilities: a survey of nursing home staff

scientific article published on 18 April 2007

Time since prior fracture is a risk modifier for 10-year osteoporotic fractures

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Too Fit To Fracture: exercise recommendations for individuals with osteoporosis or osteoporotic vertebral fracture.

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Too Fit To Fracture: outcomes of a Delphi consensus process on physical activity and exercise recommendations for adults with osteoporosis with or without vertebral fractures

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Use of screening to recruitment ratios as a tool for planning and implementing spinal cord injury rehabilitation research

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Using a collaborative research approach to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda for the study of mobile health interventions for older adults.

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VA-based survey of osteoporosis management in spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 06 February 2009

What Are the Circumstances of Falls and Fractures in Long-Term Care?

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

What are the beliefs, attitudes and practices of front-line staff in long-term care (LTC) facilities related to osteoporosis awareness, management and fracture prevention?

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Who receives rehabilitation in canadian long-term care facilities? A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on January 2015