Indigenous Wellness

Leah Ferguson

Email

leah.ferguson@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • Journeying Together to Co-Create a Foundation for Indigenous Sport Research

  • Sport History of the Indigenous Games

  • Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program in Saskatchewan

Select Publications

  • “It’s a big adjustment coming from the reserve to living in a totally different society”: Exploring the well-being of First Nations athletes playing sports in an urban mainstream context. (link)

  • “It’s more than just performing well in your sport. It’s also about being healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually”: Indigenous women athletes’ meanings and experiences of flourishing in sport. (link)

  • “I would love to blast some pow music and just dance”: First Nations students’ experiences of physical activity on campus. (link)

  • Narratives of adolescent women athletes’ body self-compassion, performance and emotional well-being. (link)

  • Enhancing capacity: Integrating self-compassion in sport. (link)

  • The agony of defeat: How Olympians can deal with failure. (link)

Expertise

  • Sports Psychology

  • Indigenous Health

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Indigenous Sport

Margaret Kisikaw Piyesis

Email

kisikawpiyesis@allnationshope.ca

Research Projects

  • Aboriginal HIV & AIDS Community-Based Research Collaborative Centre (link)

  • Development of the Aboriginal Women’s Research Initiative (AWRI)

  • Family Matters: Informing a family-based model of care with Aboriginal families affected by HIV

  • Stable Homes, Strong Families: Housing and Health for Aboriginal Peoples Living with HIV and AIDS

  • The Impacts of the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure on Indigenous People Living with HIV/AIDS: An Urban Case Study of Regina

  • Mâcîpiciw: Restoration of Indigenous men's roles and responsibilities

  • Kiskinowâpamew (s/he imitates her/him in order to learn): An Indigenous-led organization’s research journey

Select Publications

Expertise

  • HIV and AIDS

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Indigenous Health

  • Women and Gender

Stacey Lovo

Email

stacey.lovo@usask.ca

Research Projects

  • A Community-Informed Team and Technology Approach to Chronic Back Pain Management in Partnership with a Northern Saskatchewan Cree First Nation

  • Patient experiences of health care access challenges for back pain care across the rural-urban continuum

  • Development and Evaluation of VR Teaching Tools in the School of Rehab Science

Select Publications

  • Experience of Patients and Practitioners with a Team and Technology Approach to Chronic Back Disorder Management (link)

  • Building Partnerships in Indigenous Wellness (link)

  • Use of real-time videoconferencing to deliver physical therapy services: a scoping review of published and emerging evidence (link)

  • Bridging Health Care Access Gaps in a Remote Indigenous Community (link)

  • Use of videoconferencing technologies for physical therapy in people with musculoskeletal conditions (link)

Expertise

  • Telerehabilitation

  • Indigenous Wellness

  • Community Engagement

  • Musculoskeletal Health

  • Professional practice

 

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