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Featured Research
Osteoarthritis Research this week
Funding Opportunities
Current Study Recruitment

Featured Research

The Latest in Osteoarthritis Research

Epidemiology and Outcomes

• Men and Women Demonstrate Differences in Early Functional Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty
• The Effect of Hip Arthroplasty on Osteoarthritic Gait: A Blinded, Prospective and Controlled Gait Study at Fast Walking Speeds
• Study on the relation between tissues pathologies and traditional chinese medicine syndromes in knee osteoarthritis: Medical image diagnostics by preoperative X-ray and surgical arthroscopy
• Association between overweight and obesity and risk of clinically diagnosed knee, hip, and hand osteoarthritis: A population-based cohort study
• Muscle strength, physical performance and physical activity as predictors of future knee replacement: A prospective cohort study.
• The association between comorbidities and pain, physical function and quality of life following hip and knee arthroplasty
• Gender differences in gait kinematics for patients with knee osteoarthritis
• Psychological Factors Associated With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Recovery
• Pain, disability and health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis-joint matters: an observational, multi-specialty trans-national follow-up study
• The Gait Deviation Index Is Associated with Hip Muscle Strength and Patient-Reported Outcome in Patients with Severe Hip Osteoarthritis-A Cross-Sectional Study
• ‘It is a Big Thing’: Exploring the Impact of Osteoarthritis from the Perspective of Adults Caring for Parents – The Sandwich Generation

Symptom Management

• Gait mechanics in those with/without medial compartment knee osteoarthritis five years after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
• Turmeric (Curcuma longa): Effects of Curcuma longa Extracts Compared With Ibuprofen for Reduction of Pain and Functional Improvement in Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis
• Comparison of group-based outpatient physiotherapy with usual care after total knee replacement: A feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial
• Does a Patient-centered Educational Intervention Affect African-American Access to Knee Replacement? A Randomized Trial

Research Methods/ Measures

• Effect of retro and forward walking on quadriceps muscle strength, pain, function, and mobility in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Reviews, Commentaries, Statements, and Guidelines

• Shifting gears in osteoarthritis research towards symptomatic osteoarthritis
• Advances in combining gene therapy with cell and tissue engineering-based approaches to enhance healing of the meniscus
• Isokinetic muscle strengthening for knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials with meta-analysis

Funding

• Rheumatology Research Foundation Awards and Grants: Awards for research, education, preceptorships, and annual meetings. Application deadlines May-August.
• DEADLINE APPROACHING! Advancing Arthritis Public Health Approaches through National Organizations, CDC-RFA-DP16-1606, due April 29, 2016
• Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity: RWJF is seeking research proposals that will inform efforts aimed at helping all children grow up at a healthy weight. Concept papers due May 11 and August 3.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions: the RWJF is looking globally for ideas to help us build a Culture of Health in the United States. If you have an idea that has worked abroad and has the potential to be adapted to work in the United States, we want to hear from you. Webinar for applicants March 30, 2016, 11am-12pm ET, registration here. Deadline for brief proposals is May 31, 2016.
• The Rheumatology Research Foundation Innovative Research Award: Encouraging independent investigators to conduct novel studies that generate new insights into the cause, progression, treatment and outcomes of rheumatic diseases. LOI due June 1, 2016. Application deadline July 1, 2016.
• Notice of Additional Participation in PAR-16-052 “Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Injury Across the Lifespan: Exploratory Research (R21)“, This Notice is to inform potential applicants that additional NIH components will participate in PAR-16-052 and to detail additional interests of NIDA and NIA.
• T2 Translational Research: Research Leading to New Health Care Practices, Community Programs and Policies Affecting Older Persons (R21)
• Research Grants Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) (R21)
• Research Grants Using the Resources from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) (R01)
• Health and Human Services Innovator-in-Residence for health policy innovation to lower the cost and improve the quality of healthcare for seniors
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Centers of Research Translation (P50)
• Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health

Current Study Recruitment

• Health of Adults’ Longitudinal Observational (HALO) Study: Is Recreational Running Associated with the Development and Progression of Knee Osteoarthritis. The HALO Study is a study being conducted by researchers from the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis and the University of Nottingham and seeks to understand the relationship between chronic disease, such as osteoarthritis, and physical activity, such as running, by following a population of runners over a number of years. All runners in the UK and Australia are invited to take part.
• CenterWatch Osteoarthritis Clinical Research Trials by state