Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday, February 23, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the forecasted weather. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday February 23, 2026 @ 5:55 am)

Karen Kendall

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Assistant Professor
Email Karen
Ph:  902-585-1558
Office:  AAC 488

Teaching
  • Foundations of Kinesiology
  • Fitness Programming
  • Physiological Assessment
  • Exercise Science Clinical Practicum
Scholarly Expertise

- Clinical Exercise Physiologist, Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology
- Certified Athletic Therapist, Canadian Athletic Therapist Association
- Accredited Exercise Physiologist, Exercise & Sports Science Australia



Community Service

- Member, Clinical Exercise Physiologist Technical Sub-Committee, Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology

Publications

- Korman, N., Shah, S., Suetani, S., Kendall, K.D, Rosenbaum, S., Dark, F., Nadareishvili, K., and Siskind, D., (2018). Evaluating the Feasibility of a Pilot Exercise Intervention Implemented Within a Residential Rehabilitation Unit for People With Severe Mental Illness: GO HEART: (Group Occupational Health Exercise and Rehabilitation Treatment). Frontiers in Psychiatry. 9. 343.
- Pohl, M.B., Kendall, K.D., Patel, C., Wiley, J.P., Emery, C. and Ferber, R. (2015). The role of experimentally reduced hip abductor strength on frontal plane biomechanics during walking. Journal of athletic training; 50(4):385-91.
- Kendall, K.D., Emery, C.A., Wiley, J.P., Ferber, R. (2014). The effect of the addition of hip strengthening exercises to a lumbopelvic exercise programme for the treatment of non-specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 18 (6), 626-631.
- Kendall, K.D., Patel, C., Wiley, J.P., Pohl, M.B., Emery, C.A., Ferber, R. (2013). Steps towards the validation of the Trendelenburg test: The effect of experimentally reduced hip abductor muscle function on frontal plane mechanics. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 23, 45-51.
- Ferber, R., Kendall, K.D., and Farr, L. (2011). Changes in knee biomechanics following a hip abductor strengthening protocol for runners with patellofemoral pain syndrome. Journal of Athletic Training. 46(2), 142-149.

Presentations

Exercise & Sport Science Australia Conference: Research to Practice
2018
Brisbane, QLD: AUS
Podium Presentation: Assessing lumbopelvic stability using real-time ultrasound in a student-led exercise physiology clinic: A reliability study.
Podium Presentation: The effects of a physical activity intervention implemented within a residential mental health rehabilitation unit.
Poster Communication: Examining the Trendelenburg test: A correlation study on individuals with non-specific low back pain and controls.

9th Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back and Pelvic Girdle Pain
2016
Singapore: Singapore
Podium Presentation: The effect of hip muscle strengthening on pain and disability for individuals with non-specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.
Poster Communication: Examining the Trendelenburg test: A correlation study on individuals with non-specific low back pain and controls.
6th Exercise & Sport Science Australia Conference and Sports

Exercise & Sport Science Australia Conference:  Research to Practice
2014
Adelaide, SA: AUS
Podium Presentation: Aspire Academy Early Career Researcher Award Finalist – Exercise Science and Health. The effect of hip muscle strengthening on pain and disability for individuals with non-specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.

American College of Sport Medicine Conference
2012
San Francisco, CAL: USA
Poster Communication: Changes in lumbopelvic mechanics following ultrasound
guided nerve block in the superior gluteal nerve.

Canadian Athletic Therapist Association Annual Conference
2012
Quebec City, QUE: CAN
Presentation and Poster Communication: Steps towards the validation of the Trendelenburg test: The effect of experimentally reduced hip abductor muscle function on frontal plane mechanics.

Curriculum Vitae