Neuroplasticity and Motor Recovery (N’MORE) Lab

Patient-Centered Stroke Rehabilitation & Outcomes Research

Kenya Flores


Undergraduate Researcher | Rehabilitation Sciences


Kenya Flores is an undergraduate researcher pursuing a B.S. in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Her research focuses on stroke rehabilitation, quantitative measurement of upper-extremity motor recovery, and the application of wearable sensors and machine learning to rehabilitation research.

At N’MORE, Kenya leads the rehabilitation treatment-content annotation team, coordinating video-based classification of therapy activities to establish reliable ground-truth data for accelerometry-based measurement. Her work contributes to developing methods that can objectively quantify how much rehabilitation patients receive and what types of therapeutic activities are delivered.

Kenya is first author of an abstract accepted for presentation at the 2027 APTA Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), titled "Reliable Classification of Upper-Extremity Therapy Content: A Ground-Truth Reference for Accelerometry-Based Dose Measurement Post-Stroke." She also co-authored research on the capacity–performance gap after stroke presented at the 2026 American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) Annual Meeting.

Beyond N’MORE, Kenya has contributed to community-engaged research examining resilience and well-being among displaced older women through movement and social engagement. She was first author of "Corazones Activos: Strengthening Resilience in Elderly Displaced Women Through Dance, Craft-Making, and Social Engagement," presented at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

Her research reflects an interest in connecting rigorous measurement science with meaningful rehabilitation and community health outcomes.