News
We received a new 3-year NIH R21 grant!
We received a new 3-year NIH grant to continue our work on mindful exercise for people with knee osteoarthritis!
Dr. Kumar discussed our work on gait and pain in a podcast
Dr. Kumar and Dr. Bacon discussed our recent publication on the relation of gait measures with worsening pain and physical function with Dr. David Hunter on his Joint Action podcast. Listed to the episode here and read the paper here.
New open-access publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
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
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.
Dr. Kumar was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor!
Congratulations Dr. Kumar!!
Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Bacon for receiving the “Highest Rated Abstracts from Early Career Researchers” at OARSI
Dr. Kathy Bacon received one of the awards for "Highest Rated Abstracts from Early Career Investigators" at OARSI 2024 in Vienna for her presentation on "Association of wearable-sensor derived gait measures with cartilage worsening over 2-years in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study"
Presentations at OARSI 2024 in Vienna!
New publication of digital gait measures related with pain and function
Our latest publication presents wearable-sensor derived digital measures of gait that are related with worsening pain and those related with worsening physical function in people with knee osteoarthritis. We used ensemble machine learning for this longitudinal study in a large cohort. Published in Arthritis Care and Research.
New publication on bone length and risk of total knee replacement
In work led by the Kolachalama Lab at BU School of Medicine, we explore how subchondral bone length, a novel MRI-derived measure, can predict the need for total knee replacement due to osteoarthritis. Published in Skeletal Radiology.
Recap of APTA CSM 2024
