stroke rehabilitation research

Dr. John Solomon coordinates the CCSRR and leads multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation research. He serves as Associate Dean at the Manipal College of Health Professions (MCHP), MAHE, and is a Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy. He oversees all centre activities, research projects, and collaborations. His research focuses on upper limb motor recovery, neuromodulation, and innovative rehabilitation approaches for stroke survivors.

Dr. Manikandan Natarajan is an Additional Professor and Head of the Department of Physiotherapy at MCHP, MAHE, Manipal, and a founding member of CCSRR. His research focuses on balance and gait rehabilitation, outcome measures in physiotherapy, medical instrument design and development, and community-based rehabilitation programs for stroke survivors

Dr. Senthil Kumaran D is an Additional Professor in the Department of Physiotherapy at MCHP, MAHE, Manipal, and a founding member of CCSRR. His expertise spans virtual reality and game-based rehabilitation, task-based training, kinematic and kinetic analysis, and physical activity promotion in stroke survivors. He leads multiple clinical trials investigating innovative rehabilitation approaches.

Dr. Gopee Krishnan is a Professor in the Department of Speech and Language Pathology and a founding member contributing to stroke rehabilitation research at CCSRR. His research focuses on linguistic impairments in aphasia, rehabilitation in aphasia, and orthographic processing in the brain. He leads multiple ICMR- and DST-funded clinical trials in stroke survivors and has secured two research grants worth ₹7.5 million from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.