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Introducing Dr. Soyoung Lee!

August 6th, 2024

Dr. Soyoung Lee successfully defended her doctoral dissertation and will continue on as a postdoc at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Congratulations Dr. Lee!!

 

New open-access publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open

June 25th, 2024

New publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open on feasibility of a novel telehealth mindful exercise intervention for chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis using a fully decentralized randomized controlled trial design.

A supervised, telehealth, group-based mindful exercise intervention, developed by integrating mindfulness into strengthening exercises, is safe and satisfactory for knee OA. Our decentralized approach yielded excellent recruitment and retention but suboptimal adherence and racial diversity. The findings from this study will guide refinements to the mindful exercise intervention and study design to facilitate greater adherence and racial diversity.

First author: Nirali Shah, PT, PhD

Read open access here.

New publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

May 22nd, 2024

New publication from our group in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journal on "Associations of Pain Sensitivity and Conditioned Pain Modulation with Physical Activity: Findings from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)"

Soyoung Lee is the first author.


Using data from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST)(n=1,873), we observed that greater peripheral and/or central pain sensitivity was related to lower wearable accelerometer-derived daily step counts. However, conditioned pain modulation was not related to physical activity measures.

While this cross-sectional study does not inform causality or directionality, strategies to mitigate pain sensitization may be a necessary early step to increase physical activity in people with chronic pain due to knee osteoarthritis. Or increasing physical activity may partially improve pain via its action on pain sensitization.

Read more here.