Adam Thrasher

  • Associate Professor
  • Assistant Professor
  • University of Houston

Research Interests

Rehabilitation Biomechanics Neurological disorders

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About

Dr. Thrasher earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada in 2002, and has a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering with Honors from the same institution. Following a period as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto in Canada, Dr. Thrasher moved to the University of Houston in September 2006 to develop an independent research program on movement disorders and clinical interventions to improve function. Dr. Thrasher is an internationally recognized expert on the use of Functional Electrical Stimulation to restore movement in muscles that have been paralyzed or weakened by stroke or spinal cord injury. He has designed and implemented several electrical stimulation devices for the rehabilitation of walking, reaching and grasping. He co-authored the entry on “Neuroprostheses” in the Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and has published extensively on the use of electrical stimulation devices. Dr. Thrasher is also interested in other novel rehabilitation technologies, such as robot-assisted movement therapy.

Dr. Thrasher is currently investigating the central control of walking by analyzing peripheral nerve signals during walking in a variety of clinical populations. He collaborates extensively with physicians, therapists and clinical scientists throughout the Texas Medical Center. Dr. Thrasher is a member of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

Publications

Sliding and lower limb mechanics during sit-stand-sit transitions with a standing wheelchair.

Yang Y, Chen M, Fang W, Chang J, Kuo C

BioMed research international (2014)

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The psychosocial impact on standing devices

Nordström B, Nyberg L, Ekenberg L, Näslund A

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology (2014)

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Societal costs of intrathecal drug delivery systems-an administrative analysis based on patient claims.

Thrasher T, Fisher S

Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society (2013)

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A comprehensive three-dimensional dynamic model of the human head and trunk for estimating lumbar and cervical joint torques and forces from upper body kinematics.

Vette A, Yoshida T, Thrasher T, Masani K, Popovic M

Medical engineering & physics (2012)

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Evaluation of muscle fatigue of wheelchair basketball players with spinal cord injury using recurrence quantification analysis of surface EMG.

Uzun S, Pourmoghaddam A, Hieronymus M, Thrasher T

European journal of applied physiology (2012)

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Exercise Intensity during Treadmill Walking with Gait-Patterned FES among Patients with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: Case Series

Miyatani M, Masani K, Kawashima N, Craven B, Thrasher T, Popovic M

ISRN Rehabilitation (2012)

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A complete, non-lumped, and verifiable set of upper body segment parameters for three-dimensional dynamic modeling.

Vette A, Yoshida T, Thrasher T, Masani K, Popovic M

Medical engineering & physics (2011)

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Classification of rhythmic locomotor patterns in electromyographic signals using fuzzy sets.

Thrasher T, Ward J, Fisher S

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation (2011)

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Gait changes with walking devices in persons with Parkinson’s disease

Bryant M, Pourmoghaddam A, Thrasher T

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology (2011)

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Robot-assisted gait training for patients with hemiparesis due to stroke.

Fisher S, Lucas L, Thrasher T

Topics in stroke rehabilitation (2011)

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Responses of the trunk to multidirectional perturbations during unsupported sitting in normal adults.

Thrasher T, Sin V, Masani K, Vette A, Craven B, Popovic M

Journal of applied biomechanics (2010)

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Functional electrical stimulation of walking: function, exercise and rehabilitation.

Thrasher T, Popovic M

Annales de réadaptation et de médecine physique : revue scientifique de la Société française de rééducation fonctionnelle de réadaptation et de médecine physique (2008)

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Rehabilitation of reaching and grasping function in severe hemiplegic patients using functional electrical stimulation therapy.

Thrasher T, Zivanovic V, McIlroy W, Popovic M

Neurorehabilitation and neural repair (2008)

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Electric stimulation approaches to the restoration and rehabilitation of swallowing: a review

Steele C, Thrasher T, Popovic M

Neurological Research (2007)

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Identification of arm movements using correlation of electrocorticographic spectral components and kinematic recordings.

Chin C, Popovic M, Thrasher T, Cameron T, Lozano A, Chen R

Journal of neural engineering (2007)

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Functional electrical therapy: retraining grasping in spinal cord injury.

Popovic M, Thrasher T, Adams M, Takes V, Zivanovic V, Tonack M

Spinal cord : the official journal of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia (2006)

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Gait training regimen for incomplete spinal cord injury using functional electrical stimulation.

Thrasher T, Flett H, Popovic M

Spinal cord : the official journal of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia (2006)

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The effect of random modulation of functional electrical stimulation parameters on muscle fatigue

Graham G, Thrasher T, Popovic M

IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil EngRehabilitation (2006)

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Reducing muscle fatigue due to functional electrical stimulation using random modulation of stimulation parameters.

Thrasher T, Graham G, Popovic M

Artif Organs (2005)

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Neuroprostheses

Popovic M, Thrasher T

Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering (2004)

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Professional experience

Assistant Professor

University of Houston

September 2006 - Present

Education history

University of Alberta

Ph.D.

Present

University of Alberta

B.Sc.

Present