Expanding knowledge and improving outcomes

Newcastle University Senior Lecturers in Bioengineering, Dr Ana Ferreira-Duarte and Dr Piergiorgio Gentile, are recipients of Orthopaedic Research UK’s Early Careers Research funding. They are developing an antibacterial coating for metallic orthopaedic implants to help fight against infections.

Jack Tu is using a novel joint dynamic analysis approach to understand non-specific anterior knee pain after total knee replacement (TKR).

This project aims to demonstrate how a machine learning model can generate 3D images from two-dimensional ultrasound imaging, which is quick, cheap, widely available in a range of healthcare settings and radiation-free.

The findings of this research project on Peri-prosthetic femoral fracture will be used alongside data from the National Hip Fracture Database to raise awareness of the previously unidentified incidence of the injury and the potential impact on patients.

Ms Martinique Vella-Baldacchino, a specialist registrar in Trauma & Orthopaedic surgery, is a recipient of the Early Careers Research Fellowship for her research into kneecap replacement for patellofemoral joint osteoarthritis.

The winner of this year’s Inspiration Fund is a project researching Virtual Reality (VR) and sensory feedback–assisted rehabilitation for the management of chronic shoulder pain.

Early Careers Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Trauma & Orthopaedics, Salma Chaudhury, is using MRI techniques to research the relationship between shoulder dislocations and early arthritis.

Becca Stoner, the recipient of this year’s Joint Orthopaedic Research Fellowship (co-funded by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh), is researching the use of statistical modelling to help better predict trauma patient outcomes.

A team from Imperial College London’s Biomechanics Group is testing the use of a ceramic implant in hemiarthroplasty to establish whether this material can deliver lower revision rates.