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What do people with knee osteoarthritis think about receiving a weight loss diet and exercise program from a physiotherapist? See our paper out now in ACR_Journals 👇 CHESM Prof Rana Hinman Kim Bennell Melanie Holden Physiotherapy UniMelb

Just published, work led by Dr Belinda Lawford 👀👇 Prof Rana Hinman Libby Spiers Alexander Kimp Kim Bennell

📢 researchers, clinicians and people with #osteoarthritis! Help shape the future of OA research in Australia by joining this priority-setting study Whats required? 📝 2-3 short online surveys More info here: redcap.link/AusOAStudy CHESM University of Sydney

OARSI webinar: Tips for Publishing in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals Details below and registration link here: ahint.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Congratulations to our team members for their prizes at the ANZMUSC 2024 Scientific Meeting 👏 Julia Zhu was named Runner-up in the PhD Candidate Research Showcase 🤩 Travis Haber was awarded #Osteoarthritis Paper of the Year 🤩 for paper below jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jo…

You can now watch the recording of our Public Lecture hosted in Adelaide last week. Thanks again @anne__burke Prof Rana Hinman Mark Hancock and our other panellists. Special thanks to organisers Christine Lin Helen Ramsay A/Prof Tasha Stanton Erin MacIntyre! youtube.com/watch?v=ewnOac…

Congratulations to Prof Linda Denehy (Physiotherapy UniMelb) who has been elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences! A brilliant recognition of Linda's pioneering work in cancer and critical care rehabilitation.

Congratulations to Meike van Haeringen for this award - and at your first conference!! 🤩👏

The protocol for the RETREAT RCT, testing an unsupervised online Tai Chi program for knee OA, is now published in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals Open! ⭐️ Check out the details as we wrap up recruiting final participants and stay tuned for the results! 🔜 oarsiopenjournal.com/article/S2665-… CHESM

Congrats A/Prof Stephanie Filbay on being named a 2024 VIC Young Tall Poppy! A/Prof Filbay & her team's research found that ACLs can heal w/out surgery. 1-in-3 people w/ a completely torn ACL who were treated with non-surgical rehabilitation, had ACL healing on MRI 2-years later

📣 Just published! Is exercise effective for knee osteoarthritis? A Cochrane systematic review Led by Dr Belinda Lawford with collaborators: Michelle Hall Prof Rana Hinman Libby Spiers Alexander Kimp Kim Bennell 🔗cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10…

📣 Australian Osteoarthritis Summit 2025: Driving Impactful Research Bringing together researchers, clinicians, consumer orgs, those with lived experience of #osteoarthritis, industry and government bodies All details and rego: go.unimelb.edu.au/vck8

The ACL patient decision aid is freely available: aclinjurytreatment.com

Just published! Work led by Dr Belinda Lawford found that 'using x-rays rather than a clinical approach to diagnose & explain knee #osteoarthritis can have potentially undesirable impacts on patient beliefs' #infographic below 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Knee and hip osteoarthritis exercise toolkit for clinicians! CHESM researchers as part of OARSI have created the toolkit, covering ℹ️ Education and info 📊 Assessment and monitoring 🏃🏽‍♀️ Ex prescription 👀 Ex adherence Details here: healthsciences.unimelb.edu.au/departments/ph…

Congratulations to Dr Belinda Lawford on recent MRFF grant success! Dr Lawford and team have received a MRFF Dementia, Ageing and Aged Care grant for project: KneeCare: An online self-directed weight loss and ex program for older people with knee OA and overweight or obesity.

🎉Our latest published study once reveals the power of e-learning for #KneeOsteoarthritis management, especially in delivering tele-health care. 💻 This is a real step forward to improve exercise-based OA care in China🇨🇳 ! jmir.org/2025/1/e71057 (✨PEAK program CHESM )

Two PhD scholarships on offer for high-quality PhD applicants CHESM

Just published in PLOS Medicine: changing willingness for joint replacement surgery in people with hip/knee OA could reduce number of surgeries in the long-term 👇 doi.org/10.1371/journa… Andrea Dell'isola Ali Kiadaliri Martin Englund Kim Bennell Prof Rana Hinman Michelle Hall CHESM