About us 

The Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation Laboratory, based at Northumbria University (UK), aims to conduct world leading research in the fields of aviation medicine, space medicine, and terrestrial healthcare/rehabilitation.  It has specific interests in the role of injury/disease (e.g. low back pain, osteoarthritis) and musculoskeletal unloading (e.g. through exposure to reduced gravity, long duration bedrest, or through the ageing process), on deconditioning of the musculoskeletal system, and in the development of rehabilitation interventions to counteract this deconditioning.  

The Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation Laboratory hosts the Aerospace Medicine Systematic Review Group, which leads, conducts and advises on the synthesis of literature to inform clinical guidelines and decision making in space medicine and civil & military aviation, publishes review methodology for the aerospace medicine domain, maintains a database of reviews in the field and conducts gap analyses across the wide range of contexts relevant to the discipline in order to inform the research priorities of academia and industry.  The Aerospace Medicine and Rehabilitation Laboratory strives to capitalise on research conducted in unique populations (e.g. astronauts) to directly benefit healthcare on Earth.