Biography
Renaud Jeffrey-Gauter is a chiropractor member of the Ordre des chiropraticiens du Québec since 2009 and a professor in the anatomy department of UQTR since December 2020. Since his doctoral studies, he has been interested in the impacts of nociception and exercise on different plastic processes, including the processes involved in functional recovery after spinal cord injury. With his directors (Prs Hugues Leblond and Mathieu Piché) and their collaborators (Prs Frédéric Bretzner and Marie-Pascale Côté), he examined the impact of nociceptive neural processes and locomotor training on spinal plastic changes responsible for recovery gait after spinal cord injury in mice. In humans, a bidirectional interaction between the phenomena of pain and training is also observed clinically. In order to explore this theme, he carried out a postdoctoral internship at the interdisciplinary research center for research in rehabilitation and social integration (CIRRIS) under the supervision of Laurent Bouyer and Catherine Mercier.
