Changes in foraminal dimensions can lead to nerve compression, but the effects of cervical spine fusion and artificial disc replacement on the foramen are unknown.
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Smart glasses and gait: a winning combination or not?
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Congrats to Dr. Joe Gardinier…
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Ready to tackle the next stage of your academic career by wading into the exciting world of musculoskeletal genomics?
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Osteocytes play a role in the pathophysiology of chronic kidney disease, but the extent to which osteocytes contribute to bone turnover due to excessive parathyroid hormone is poorly understood.
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Depending on the tendon there are wide ranges of structural physiologic properties as well as cell functions based on the relationship of the cells to the matrix.
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Please join us in welcoming Dr. Amanda Ali as a new assistant scientist in the HFHS Bone & Joint Center.
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PRP has been used to treat a wide variety of clinical conditions, but there is a gap between understanding the science of what is injected and how an individual responds to their PRP preparation.
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Vertebral fractures are a huge clinical problem, but knowing how vertebrae deform may help predict fracture risk. See how Dr. Yeni and his team are using their sick engineering skillz to measure vertebral deformation in-vivo.
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Knee osteoarthritis typically develops over a decade or more. However, OA progresses much more quickly for some patients, with end-stage disease occurring within 4 years. Is it possible to predict whose OA is going to progress quickly?
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You injured your ankle, so you contact your cousin (a physical therapist in Wichita) for advice. She tells you all foot/ankle boots or casts are the same, but does she know what she’s talking about?
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There are numerous patients decision aids (DA) designed to assist patients in making decisions on medical treatment.
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In a recent AAOS instructional course Dr. Karen Sutton explained the concept of “relative energy deficiency in sports,” or RED-S.
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Do your lab mates describe you as a rockstar? If so, this post-doc opportunity in biomechanics may be perfect for you.
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If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make any sound? If a patient has a rotator cuff tear but it doesn’t cause any symptoms, is it really a problem? Or is it an opportunity?
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Can vertebral fracture risk be accurately assessed in-vivo? Maybe, but only if you have the right tools. Turns out, Dr. Yeni and his research team have the right tools.
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Building upon their previous work (https://www.hfhs-bjc.org/blog/microgravity-cartilage), this paper is next in a series describing the response of musculoskeletal tissues to the unloading environment of microgravity.
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During shoulder arthroplasty, a critical step involves reattaching the subscapularis tendon to the humerus. A number of techniques exist, but are they biomechanically equal? Let’s find out.
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As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Rebekah Lawrence — now a post-doc in the Bone & Joint Center — did some excellent work on shoulder kinematics and rotator cuff tears. JOSPT recently published some of her work on shoulder upward rotation.
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