Serajul Khan is a PhD student jointly supervised by Dr John Burne & Dr Ian Cathers.

Seraj is investigating the origin of cramp. Cramps are sudden, involuntary and painful contraction attended by visible and palpable knotting of a muscle.
There is longstanding debate on the origin of this abnormality. The purpose of his study is to evaluate potential quantitative measures of cramp and compare them to a normal voluntary contraction in an attempt to explain the site of the cause for the increased electromyographic activity observed during involuntary muscle activation.

His research has resulted in the following papers:

1. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The effect of muscle length and electrode position on reflex inhibition following tendon electrical stimulation. Accepted for 35th  Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, November, 2005, Washington.DC, USA.
2. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The effect of reflex tendon inhibition on common cramp. Accepted for 35th  Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, November, 2005, Washington.DC, USA.
3. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The effect of muscle length and electrode position on reflex inhibition following tendon electrical stimulation. Presented in Neuroscience (from bench to Bedside) Showcase 15th July, 2005, Australia.
4. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The effect of reflex tendon inhibition on common cramp. Presented in Neuroscience (from bench to Bedside) Showcase 15th July, 2005,Australia.
5. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The origin of cramp. Presented in Dean’s Research Seminars “ Delivering Better Healthcare” 11th  May, 2005,Australia.
6. S.Khan, J.A.Burne.The contribution of muscles reflexes to common cramp. From Cell to Society 4”, Fairmont Resort, Leura, 3-4 November 2004,Australia.
7. S. Khan, K.S. Rabbani. Simulated ΔT-T Distribution of Evoked Potentials for Multiple Conduction Distances in Nerve for Diagnosis of Neural Disorders. International Conference on “Physics for Understanding and Applications”, 22-24 February 2004,Bangladesh.
8. S. Khan, K.S. Rabbani. Development of a new analytical technique for diagnosis of neuropathy using distribution of time deviation of evoked motor nerve action potential obtained for several conduction distances. MS Thesis, University of Dhaka, November 2000

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