Silvia Raschke
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Research Interests
- Assistive Technology and Human Factors
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Prosthetics, Orthotics and Orthopaedic Appliances
Biography
Project Leader
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Dr. Raschke is a research faculty member at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Her research gives voice to the end users of products, processes or policies to ensure that the communities she works with are represented and have their needs met. She does this by employing evidence based practices to explore and organize how people in the community are impacted by product design, standards of practice (or lack thereof) and policy impact those people so that product design, process design and policy development is practical, implementable and actually support those who have to make things happen on the front line, on the shop floor or in their homes. Her two areas of specialty are rehabilitation engineering with a focus on prosthetic and orthotic design in support the clinicians and patients and first responders with a focus on police and the police dog service. Dr. Raschke serves on a variety of professional and educational committees and is a Board Member and past Vice President of the BCIT Faculty and Staff Association, in addition to being a member of the BCIT Emergency Response Team.
Education
PhD (Prosthetics and Orthotics) Strathclyde University
BA (Psychology) UBC
Diploma (Prosthetics and Orthotics) BCIT
Awards
Thranhardt Best Paper 2013
Recent Citations for Silvia Raschke
- Which foot? A comparative effectiveness study of subject-generated ankle kinetics as a measure of prosthetic foot function across a range of K levels
- Report on key points arising from visioning process on prosthetic and orthotic education done at the British Columbia Institute of Technology
- A functional task analysis and motion simulation for the development of a powered upper-limb orthosis
- Biomechanical characteristics, patient preference and activity level with different prosthetic feet: a randomized double blind trial with laboratory and community testing
- The impact of step targeting during normal gait for persons wearing either a SACH or a dynamic-response foot
- CAD-CAM applications for spinal orthotics: a preliminary investigation
- Osmoregulation in the halophilic bacterium halomonas elongata: a case study for integrative systems biology
- Functional level assessment of individuals with transtibial limb loss: evaluation in the clinical setting versus objective community ambulatory activity
- The influence of AFO design on walking speed, gait symmetry, comfort and stability of hemiplegic subjects
