East coasters making our way to the Rocky Mountains. Aubrey Gray and Ross Smith did great presenting their work at #RMASB ! Cool new findings on foot/ankle biomechanics. Next stop - American Society of Biomechanics Madison. Biomedical Engineering | UNC & NC State CLEAR

Out now! Read through the 30 Year Anniversary Issue of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals, featuring several articles from our TARC leadership and members (@oaactionallianc, Brian Diekman, Leigh Callahan, and more!). UNC School of Medicine
🖥️View the full issue here: bit.ly/3VJL6kT

Check out this terrific new story, Exercises for Osteoarthritis, featuring expert input from our TARC Director, Dr. Richard Loeser.🦵🏊🦴🚶 UNC School of Medicine health.usnews.com/wellness/fitne…

We would like to thank National AgrAbility for inviting Kirsten Ambrose, Associate Director of the OA Action Alliance, to present this afternoon on 'Thriving with Chronic Pain' at the AgrAbility National Training Workshop - bit.ly/43xONMC

Congratulations to Brian Diekman & all collaborators for this exciting shoutout from Aging-US! Read the full paper here to learn more about their methods and results: doi.org/10.18632/aging…📰🧬🧫

📰 Dr. John Batsis was featured in an article in The Atlantic titled, 'Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight.'
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Dr. Lindsey Criswell, Director of NIAMS, recently released a Director’s letter discussing these changes and how they will allow the institute to better address gaps and opportunities in its broad portfolio mission areas. Read the Director’s Letter at bit.ly/493AZKS

Check out our cool new paper w/ MOTION Science @ UNC !

We found that quad composition appears to provide insight into quad dysfunction independent of muscle strength, as they associated with different gait biomechanics outcomes.

Derek Dewig Christopher Johnston Brian Pietrosimone Troy Blackburn

🏃Leigh Callahan, PhD with the Division of #Rheumatology details that measured #exercise can relieve symptoms of #OsteoArthritis . It can decrease swelling, stiffness, and help perform everyday tasks.
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In this month's issue, read the review paper by Amanda E Nelson on multiple joint #osteoarthritis 🦴

The figure highlights common sites and less common/post-traumatic sites of OA

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📢The 2024 VERITY Pilot & Feasibility Research Award application is officially available! This award is a NIAMS-funded $30,000 grant aimed at providing seed funding for new projects and enhancing proposal preparation skills. Learn more and apply at: bit.ly/3v8qJDj

Check out our recent paper where we determined biomechanical threshold values that are associated with greater odds of clinically significant knee symptoms 6 months post-ACLR.
Caroline Lisee Troy Blackburn Brian Pietrosimone Jason Franz MOTION Science @ UNC UNC Sports Medicine Institute
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Excited to share new work! Surendra Raj Sharma scott commins
Identification of Alpha-Gal conjugated Lipids in Saliva of Lone-Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A community-based diet + exercise program for knee osteoarthritis in patients with overweight and obesity may be cost-effective for willingness-to-pay thresholds >$62,000 per QALY

Including D+E in knee OA care may be beneficial for public health

In AC&R
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Be sure to check out this new interview from WebMD with notable quotes from our TARC Associate Director, Leigh Callahan, speaking about #exercise and #osteoarthritis . OA Action Alliance 🦵👟

The UNC Core Center for Clinical Research is excited to announce our upcoming speaker, Kim Bennell (@UniMelb), for our next Speaker Series event. Her talk is titled, 'Digitial Delivery of Osteoarthritis Lifestyle Care.'
🗓️3/20, 3-4p EST
📍Zoom (Register: bit.ly/4afcdbt)

Join us for our upcoming Lunch & Learn Webinar on Wednesday, March 20th at 12PM ET. Register Today! bit.ly/49JUf0F #osteoarthritis UNC EXSS Shelby Baez

Don't miss tomorrow's UNC Department of Medicine #GrandRounds presentation with TARC member scott commins and Dr. Eleanor Saunders. They will be speaking about post-infection syndromes in-person and virtually on WebEx (bit.ly/4awEtYm).

In honor of LEAP day ... i wanted to celebrate UNC Orthopaedics's & UNC Sports Medicine Institute's LEAP program! Check it out and send us a note if you want to learn more or get involved! #UNCorthoresearch

Just Published:  Transforming Big Data into AI-ready data for nutrition and obesity research @unc_nri @nih U.S. Military Academy at West Point @knightlabnews @scripps_ocean Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine RTI International The University of Alabama University of Liverpool Stevens Institute of Technology #metabolomics #microbiome #AI #DataScience
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