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Impromptu Happy Hour!
Last moment plan to get out for some beverages!
Congratulations Michael Rose for NSF Fellowship!
Michael Rose has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which will support Michael's doctoral work once he leaves us in July! Congratulations Michael!
Welcome to Dr. Baekdong Cha!
Dr. Baekdong Cha joins us us a postdoc - welcome Dr. Cha!
Dr. Kumar was on the Healing Pain podcast!
Dr. Kumar was a guest on the Healing Pain Podcast to discuss our recent work on association of physical therapy interventions with opioid use in people after total knee replacement surgery.
Listen or watch to the podcast here!
APTA CSM Presentations
Akshat Mehta, a DPT student in our group is at APTA CSM presenting our work!
Kerry’s poster featured in ACR extended programming!
Kerry presented her work "Machine Learning to Predict Medial Knee Cartilage Worsening over 2 Years Using Gait and Physical Activity: The MOST Study" and this was not only highlighted during the conference but also picked up as a feature for ACR 2021 Debriefs and Poster Tours which was scheduled for Feb 4, 2022.
Read here about coverage of Kerry's work during the ACR Convergence meeting!
Farewell to Brian Friscia and welcome to Ben Senderling
Brian is moving on from his role as Lab Manager - thank you Brian for all your contributions!
Ben Senderling joins us from University of Nebraska at Omaha as our new lab manager - welcome Ben!
Congratulations Soyoung Lee on passing PhD comprehensive examinations!
Congratulations Soyoung Lee for becoming a PhD candidate and passing the 8 months long comprehensive exam process! Soyoung will continue her research at the Movement lab looking into alterations of brain function during movement and exercise in people with chronic pain using fNIRS. Congrats Soyoung!
ACR Convergence 2021 Presentations
Here are the presentations from our group at ACR Convergence 2021
New open access publication in JAMA Network Open on physical therapy and opioid use in people with total knee replacement
Physical therapy before or after surgery, outpatient physical therapy initiated within 30 days of surgery, and 6 or more sessions of outpatient physical therapy after surgery are associated with reduced likelihood of long-term opioid use. Data from ~ 67,000 patients.
Read more here!
