Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons

Program of Rehabilitative Exercise and Education to Avert Vascular Events after a Non-disabling stroke or Transient ischemic attack (PREVENT): A Randomized, Controlled Trial
The primary aim for Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons and her team is to compare the effectiveness of a 12-week community-based program of rehabilitative exercise and education to usual care in reducing vascular risk factors in people who have had a non-disabling stroke or transient ischematic attack.

Development of Aerobic Exercise Recommendations to Optimize Best Practices In Care after Stroke (AEROBICS)
An international, multidisciplinary knowledge translation project headed up by Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons aims to consolidate the evidence regarding aerobic exercise training for people post-stroke into a concise and user-friendly set of recommendations for use by health care professionals.

Feasibility of An Assessment Protocol for Serial Casting Following Botox Injections to Treat Equinus Gait in Children with CP
Barbara Kelly, Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons and collaborators at Dalhousie and the IWK examined the feasibility of an ICF-based assessment protocol in terms of acceptability, practicality, inter-rater reliability and responsiveness of the selected outcome measures to change over time.
Read the complete article: Assessment Protocol for Serial Casting After Botulinum Toxin A Injections to Treat Equinus Gait [PDF - 942kB].

Determining A Casting Protocol Post-Botox Injections to Treat Equinus Gait in Children with CP
A randomized controlled trial involving Barbara Kelly and her collaborators at Dalhousie and the IWK tests an ICF-based assessment protocol in the treatment of children with CP.

Ethics of Involving Children in Health-Related Research: Applying a Decision-Making Framework to a Clinical Trial
This paper by Barbara Kelly and Dr. Marilyn MacKay-Lyons explores ethical issues related to the involvement of children in health-related research through the application of a conceptual model (the Miller and Kenny framework) to a current clinical trial on casting protocols for equinus gait of children with cerebral palsy (CP).
Read the complete article that appeared in Physiotherapy Canada 2010 [410 kB].