Research & Grants

Research Interests

  • Cerebral palsy- assessment and rehabilitation
  • Health and fitness in children
  • Cardiac rehabilitation
  • Biomechanics- Adult and children

Research Grants

  • Source: Building Research Capacity in Child Neurology: A US/Sri Lanka Research Collaboration- University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center, United States of America - 2018 Global Brain and Nervous System Disorders Research Across the Lifespan (R21) : PAR-14-331 Reading for a PhD under above research collaboration under the title of “development of an objective clinical measure to quantify the degree of spasticity in children with spastic cerebral palsy by using modern technology to innovate effective treatment strategy for tone management”
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA research grant to read for the PhD under above mentioned research collaboration - 2018
  • AHEAD (Accelerating Higher Education and Development) grant which is a world bank project granted for young academics who are seeking for PhDs with foreign exposure- 2019
  • Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP) research grants: to conduct the study on “The impact of schoolbag carriage on musculoskeletal complications in schoolchildren aged 10-15 from Colombo” - 2017