PhD Student
Bsc
Nick Buckley is a physiotherapist and PhD student. His clinical background is in the area of paediatric disability, and his PhD focusses particularly on the development of body shape distortion in people with severe physical disability. His PhD aims to develop and validate an assessment of sleep biomechanics, to quantify movement and position during sleep in children and adolescents with and without cerebral palsy. This will allow for further investigation of the role that sleep biomechanics may play in the development of body shape distortion.
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Publications
November 2023
Substances Detected During Coroner Postmortem Toxicology Analyses in Poisoning- and Nonpoisoning-Related Suicides
Determining the association between drug use and suicide is complicated but can help to inform targeted suicide prevention strategies.
Published research Child DisabilityMarch 2023A Comparison of Inertial Measurement Units and Overnight Videography to Assess Sleep Biomechanics
The assessment of sleep biomechanics (comprising movement and position during sleep) is of interest in a wide variety of clinical and research settings. However, there is no standard method by which sleep biomechanics are measured. This study aimed to (1) compare the intra- and inter-rater reliability of the current clinical standard, manually coded overnight videography, and (2) compare sleep position recorded using overnight videography to sleep position recorded using the XSENS DOT wearable sensor platform.
Published research Child DisabilityJanuary 2023Can Wearable Inertial Measurement Units Be Used to Measure Sleep Biomechanics? Establishing Initial Feasibility and Validity
Wearable motion sensors, specifically, Inertial Measurement Units, are useful tools for the assessment of orientation and movement during sleep. The DOTs platform (Xsens, Enschede, The Netherlands) has shown promise for this purpose. This pilot study aimed to assess its feasibility and validity for recording sleep biomechanics.
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