It was Dr. Taryn Klarner’s involvement in competitive figure skating that first sparked Dr. Taryn Klarner Read’s interest in how the body moves and its ability to rehabilitate. Understanding the neural control mechanisms behind human movement serves as the foundation of her research aims. Dr. Klarner is interested in expanding on the concepts that sensory systems within the body are capable of undergoing plastic changes. These changes are in response to alterations in task or individual constraints during movement and can be quantified by examining muscle activity and joint kinematics and kinetics. Building up our understanding of nervous system plasticity in movement can help us devise rehabilitation protocols for whose who have experienced neurological trauma.
