Phone: (905) 525-9140 ext: 22910
Fax: (905) 522-6095
Office: Rm.441, IAHS
Email: pierryn@mcmaster.ca
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Michael Pierrynowski is an Associate Professor within the School of Rehabilitation Science and the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University. For 30 years Michael has demonstrated expertise in the analysis of human movement with a concentration on normal and pathological motion. He has supervised numerous graduate students and has over 100 scientific publications. Michael is a long-standing consulting editor for the Journal of Biomechanics and is the biomechanics section editor for Elsevier's The Yearbook of Sports Medicine. His recent scientific work focuses on using directional statistics to model the motion of the ankle, knee, lumbar spine, and head, neck and shoulder complex.

Fun Fact

Built a Garden Folly that amused and amazed his neighbours.

Taking Graduate Students

I am looking for 1-2 motivated full-time potential graduate students with strong mechanical, mathematical and programming experience who will use those skills to examine human movement.

Lab/Research Institute

Human Movement Laboratory, McMaster University

Human Biodynamics Laboratory, McMaster University

Courses Taught

MSc RS, PT and OT, McMaster University

2009
MSc (RS 701) Analysis and Rehabilitation of Functional Movement
MSc (PT) Unit I Physiotherapy (Tutor)
MSc (PT) Unit III Physiotherapy (Tutor)
MSc (OT) Term IV Occupational Therapy (Research Course Tutor)

2008
MSc (RS 701) Analysis and Rehabilitation of Functional Movement
MSc (PT) Unit I Physiotherapy (Tutor)
MSc (PT) Unit III Physiotherapy (Tutor)
MSc (PT) Unit III Physiotherapy (Professional Issues Coordinator)
MSc (OT) Term IV Occupational Therapy (Research Course Tutor)

2007
MSc (RS 701) Analysis and Rehabilitation of Functional Movement
MSc (PT) Unit I Physiotherapy (Tutor)
MSc (OT) Term IV Occupational Therapy (Research Course Tutor)

Recent Research

2010
CIHR, 01 July 2010 – 30 June 2012, $106,570, The ability of video gait analysis to evaluate gait in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy. Gorter JW, Harvey A, Mesterman R, Pierrynowski M, Rosenbaum P, Narayanan U, Wright V

2009
Physicians’ Services Incorporated, 01 March 2009 – 28 Feb 2011, 168,490, Functional outcomes, energy expenditure and ambulation effort in hip resurfacing and total hip replacement patients under the age of 55 years: an expertise-based randomized, controlled trial. Smith F, de Beer J, Gottschalk R, Pierrynowski MR, Vithal I.

NIH (NCCAM)/CIHR Biological Basis for Manual Therapies call for Exploratory and/or Developmental Grants (R21), 01 Jul 2009 – 30 June 2011, $274,848, Characterizing the Magnitude and Time Course of Biological Responses in Mild to Moderate Whiplash Associated Disorders as a basis for Differentiating Biological Outcomes and Predictors. MacDermid JC, Pierrynowski MR, Dickey JP, Woodhouse LJ, Goldsmith CH, Galea V, Kumbhare DA, Gross AR, Parkinson W, McLaughlin LM

2008
MITACS, 01 July 2009 – 30 June 2012, $220,000, Quantifying Biomechanical Motion. Kim PT, Pierrynowski MR, Dickey JP, Thomason JJ

2007
NIH, 01 Jul 2008 – 30 June 2010, $273,879, Characterizing the magnitude and time course of biological responses in mild and moderate whiplash associated disorders as a basis for differentiating biological outcomes and predictors. MacDermid J, Pierrynowski M, Gross A, Dickey J, Goldsmith C, Galea V, McLaughlin L, Woodhouse L.

NSERC, Research Tools and Instruments Grant, 01 July 2008 – 30 June 2009, $135,799, Geometry of human movement. Kim P, Pierrynowski M, Dickey J.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 01 Oct 2007 - 30 Sep 2008, $100,000, Dose-Dependency of Joint Loading and Risk of Knee Osteoarthritis in Middle-Aged Male Runners: Influence of Running Speed and Mileage, Periarticular Muscle Strength and Prior Injury to the Knee. Blimkie, CJR, Adachi R, Webber C, Pierrynowski M, Gordon C, Beattie K, Young B, Thabane L, Inglis D