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Numaira Obaid was interviewed and featured in the 51猎奇入口News for her research on investigating how age-related degeneration impacts geriatric spinal injuries. She hopes her findings will help develop better fall prevention strategies.

Dr. Obaid is a postdoctoral fellow in at the SFU鈥檚 Surrey-based Neurospine Biomechanics Lab working alingside with 51猎奇入口MSE professor Carolyn Sparrey and Dr. Brian Kwon, an internationally recognized surgeon-scientist at Vancouver General Hospital, she is building a human model to simulate what happens to the spinal cord in older people with a hyperextension injury, and in particular, where there may be correlation with degeneration, to identify who may be most at risk for serious or further injuries.