ISPGR 2022: Featured Keynote Speaker – Caterina Rosano

Caterina talks about her fascination with unravelling the mystery behind why / how some people age more robustly than others, and how this has led to her idea of mobility resilience and use of cutting edge methods to identify the factors which contribute to mobility resilience. We discuss the potential need to incorporate more personalised “treatments” into day to day activities rather than scheduled and structured exercise / physio. There-in lies the challenge to our ISPGR community: to understand the mechanisms of maintaining / improving mobility resilience and thereby tailor treatments to best effect.

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