Welcome To Neuromuscular Health and Exercise

Welcome to our Healthy Exercise Aging Lab Group (HEAL) web-site. The overarching goals of our research group are to harmonize basic and applied research strategies to investigate how the human body changes and adapts to aging, disease and exercise. Our research is intended to improve the quality of life of older adults. Through studying how sex and gender shape age-related change to the neuromuscular system which contributes to declines in functional movement and physical independence.

Our labs are within the school of Health and Exercise Sciences, and supported by the Faculty of Health and Social Development at the University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus.