Centre for Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research

🌟 Introducing Lívia, Our Collaborating PhD Student! 🎓

Lívia is a Brazilian physiotherapist that moved to Aotearoa to do her PhD at the University of Otago.

🔍 She is focused on developing work that can bridge the gap between academia and the real world. Her PhD investigates how Māori with chronic pain represent and symbolize the pain they experience. She is curious about meaningful ways of collecting and interpreting data, including participatory research methods such as arts-based and collaborative ethnography. She is excited to collaborate with CMOR whānau.

💡 Stay tuned for updates on Lívia's impactful work and her contributions to our community.

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CMOR Director Prof. Haxby Abbott was in Nelson giving a public lecture for the Community Health Lecture Series, with a local health provider and Arthritis New Zealand https://www.arthritis.org.nz/2023/07/03/osteoarthritis-support-for-people-in-nelson-tasman-and-marlborough/

🌟 Introducing Rory Christopherson, our new PhD Student! 🎉

"Kia ora koutou katoa! Ko Rory McMahon Christopherson tōku ingoa."

🦵 Rory is a physiotherapist and lecturer at Wintec Te Pūkenga Physiotherapy programme. He is excited to join the CMOR community, with doctoral research focused on the impact of hip and knee osteoarthritis on work participation in employed individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand.

🌟 Stay tuned for updates on this research and its implications for knee and hip osteoarthritis.

🌟 Introducing Andrés Pierobon, our Collaborating PhD Student! 🎉

Andrés, a physical therapist from Argentina, is focused on developing an objective outcome measure for assessing physical function in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Based in Wellington, his expertise in chronic pain, sports injuries, and outcome measures brings valuable insights to our research collaboration.

🦵Stay tuned for updates on Andrés's work in improving our understanding of knee osteoarthritis and enhancing patient care.

🌟 Introducing Dr Richelle Caya, our newest PhD researcher!🎉

🔬 We are excited to welcome Richelle Caya to our research community at CMOR. With a background as a dedicated physiotherapist from the United States, she brings a wealth of experience to her exploration of the impact of depression on interventions for osteoarthritis.

We report a focus group workshop study on the views of a wide range of people within the health sector regarding current and future priorities for health service delivery for people with osteoarthritis in the public health system in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Exploring the current and future osteoarthritis health service delivery needs in Aotearoa New Zealand Globally, osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of chronic pain and disability. In Aotearoa New Zealand, OA affects one in 10 people and prevalence is predicted to increase by 76% in the next 20 years due to obesity and population demographics and to drive healthcare costs up by 86%.

Arthritis NZ invite you to sign up for the

#ArthritisChallenge Register today and show your support for over 700,000 New Zealanders living with arthritis.

Spaces are avaialable in the GLA:D Training Course in Hamilton, August 20-21, for physiotherapists wishing to be certified to deliver GLA:D Osteoarthritis programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Sign up using the link Physiotherapy New Zealand
https://pnz.org.nz/Event?Action=View&Event_id=3458

GLA:D® Osteoarthritis Training Course : PNZ Course details: The GLA:D® programme (Good Life with osteoArthritis : Denmark) is a guideline-based 8-week structured patient education and exercise therapy program targeting patients with symptomatic knee and hip OA, initiated in 2013 to bridge the gap between clinical guidelines and clinical prac...

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/5-million-research-osteoarthritis

$5 million for research on osteoarthritis Nearly $5 million has been injected into University of Otago research which aims to reduce the burden of osteoarthritis in New Zealand. Orthopaedic...

https://www.hrc.govt.nz/news-and-events/study-develop-safer-alternative-opioids-part-more-78m-allocated-health-research

Study to develop safer alternative to opioids part of more than $78M allocated to health research A research team who have developed a suite of non-addictive drug compounds to treat pain have received one of 53 HRC grants in a $78.92 million funding allocation for new and innovative research into some of New Zealand's most pressing health concerns.

ARF data analyst job opportunity at CMOR, 9 months at around 12 hours per week
https://www.seek.com.au/job/56575045?tracking=PAC-P1T006

Assistant Research Fellow, Surgical Sciences (0.32FTE) Job in Otago The Department of Surgical Sciences is a major academic department within the Dunedin School of Medicine. The Department excels in clinical teaching and training, linking science with clinical research. In addition to teaching undergraduate medical students, we offer world-class postgraduate educati...

The Australia & New Zealand Musculoskeletal (ANZMUSC) Clinical Trials Network is a collaboration of clinical researchers, scientists, health professionals and consumers who are working to improve the evidence base of health through the conduct of high quality, multicentre randomised controlled trials; and the uptake of that evidence into practice and policy.

As part of the Network, ANZMUSC has a Consumer Advisory Group (CAG) to provide a mechanism for consumer input on ANZMUSC clinical trials and other activities undertaken by the network.

They are looking for 12 consumers with the following experience and attributes to apply to join the CAG:

👉 Have experience with one or more musculoskeletal conditions; or have experience as a carer for a close family member
👉 Have established consumer networks through association with consumer groups and/or communities
👉 Good analytical and well-developed communication skills (oral and written)
👉 Ability to work in a group and interact with health professionals, researchers and other ANZMUSC stakeholders
👉 Understanding of and commitment to helping improve musculoskeletal outcomes
👉 Ability to use online platforms to attend meetings e.g. Zoom, MS teams
👉 Overall computer literacy skills (including internet, email and word documents)

Find out more and apply: https://bit.ly/3HTjHCH
Applications close: 1 April 2022

MSK Australia Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy WA

Why do we need the Osteoarthritis Aotearoa New Zealand Summit?

https://bit.ly/NZJP_49_3_OBrien_Abbott

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Running causes arthritis... right?
Nope.
But it worsens arthritis... right?
Nope.
People with arthritis should stop exercising... right?
Nope.

Please stop telling people with OA they are wearing out their joints.

https://twitter.com/hjluks/status/1405852223377182720?s=21

Howard Luks MD on Twitter “Running causes arthritis... right? Nope. But it worsens arthritis... right? Nope. People with arthritis should stop exercising... right? Nope. Please stop telling people with OA they are wearing out their joints. https://t.co/gR35vMKSA5”

This one-day osteoarthritis symposium will bring together clinicians from all disciplines, health delivery organisations, consumers and researchers with a particular interest in managing osteoarthritis in Aotearoa.

A series of Keynote and Plenary speakers will present on innovative healthcare delivery models and clinical programmes for OA and OA research in Aotearoa to ensure you’re up-to-date on best-practice healthcare delivery for people with osteoarthritis.

All attendees will contribute to priority-setting for health delivery innovations and OA research in Aotearoa, and to help shape a recommended Osteoarthritis Strategy that will be presented to government ministers, health funders and policymakers at our end-of- year Osteoarthritis Summit.

“How New Zealand's healthcare system is failing people with osteoarthritis”
https://theconversation.com/how-new-zealands-healthcare-system-is-failing-people-with-osteoarthritis-157138

How New Zealand's healthcare system is failing people with osteoarthritis Specific exercise therapy is the most recommended treatment for osteoarthritis, and it could save New Zealand's health system $20 million each year by reducing other costly and ineffective treatments.

Want to support the movement for better care for people with osteoarthritis in Aotearoa | New Zealand?
Donations in 2021 go toward sponsoring the “Kōtihitihi Kaikōiwi Aotearoa | New Zealand Osteoarthritis Summit”, to be held in Wellington, November 2021. We will be inviting the Minister of Health and MoH, DHB and PHO policymakers, to present them with 3 main things: our policy recommendations (here: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10422), a Model of Care for the best-practice treatment of osteoarthritis in the public healthcare system, a white paper on priorities for osteoarthritis research and service develepment in Aotearoa | New Zealand.onations in 2021 go toward sponsoring the “Kōtihitihi Kaikōiwi Aotearoa | New Zealand Osteoarthritis Summit”, to be held in Wellington, November 2021. We will be inviting the Minister of Health and MoH, DHB and PHO policymakers, to present them with 3 main things: our policy recommendations (here: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10422), a Model of Care for the best-practice treatment of osteoarthritis in the public healthcare system, a white paper on priorities for osteoarthritis research and service develepment in Aotearoa | New Zealand.
https://givealittle.co.nz/fundraiser/moa-donations

Management of Osteoarthritis | Maimoatanga Kaikōiwi Donations made here will help fund an new initiative to improve the quality of osteoarthritis care in the NZ public healthcare system

Centre for Musculoskeletal Outcomes Research updated their business hours.

We asked people with osteoarthritis, healthcare providers, policy makers, and other stakeholders what is important to them when choosing treatments for knee osteoarthritis (OA). With some fancy maths, we calculated their priorities. Then we lined those priorities up with the evidence about actual treatments for OA. Then we made a fun visual tool to illustrate what we found: https://cmor.shinyapps.io/cmor-evidence-table/
We call it the CMOR Evidence Table (C more evidence...get it :-)
Have a play with it, it's interactive.

CMOR Evidence Table Some of them are highly effective, reducing pain and improving joint function and overall quality of life; others have limited or unclear effect on pain or disability. Some are widely available, easily accessible, and affordable for all people with osteoarthritis; others are expensive or involve lon...

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