Events
FHS MSK-IF Innovation Rounds
The Innovation Rounds is an event to showcase our ongoing projects at FHS MSK-IF. We promote a collaborative environment for interdisciplinary feedback and discussion. This event is available faculty-wide and is a great opportunity for those who would like to learn more about their engagement with the FHS MSK-IF and its resources.
For more information regarding our group, please refer to this presentation.
Innovation Rounds - October 29, 2024
We will be hosting this event both in person and virtually to promote a collaborative environment for interdisciplinary feedback and discussion regarding our ongoing projects and work. This event features Dr. Alison Rushton, Dr. Joy C. MacDermid, and James Shelley as speakers.
Designing a 3D Pain Assessment Application (Presentation)
Presenter: Dr. Alison Rushton, Jamie Kim, Monica Lin
The purpose of this project is to develop a patient-facing application to enable an extended dataset for existing musculoskeletal databases/registries to collect a comprehensive range of pain/symptom assessment data to enable in-depth understanding of the characteristics of pain/symptoms for research. Detailed assessment data enables greater understanding of a patient’s experience, trajectory over time, and outcomes. For example, three-dimensional symptom mapping with the opportunity to shade more heavily where symptoms are stronger is an illustration of what characteristics we can collect in an extended dataset. The characteristics to be collected are being detailed through ongoing collaboration with patient partners and musculoskeletal researchers across upper limb, lower limb and spine research teams.
AI-assisted Approach for Writing Lay Summarizing Tool (Presentation #1, Presentation #2)
Presenters: Dr. Joy C. MacDermid, James Shelley
To support faculty members and research labs in creatively their sharing research with various audiences and knowledge users, the Faculty of Health Sciences is developing an internal AI prototype that creates automated lay-person summaries of research papers. The tool is adaptive from the ground up, using interchangeable templates that can be customized for unique contexts, audiences, disciplines and use cases. This experimental resource is in open internal beta and is designed around principles of customizability, scalability, and usability.
To try out this tool, please refer to the instructions in this document.
Innovation Rounds - July 10, 2024
Measuring Temperature and Muscle Contraction in Custom Made Orthotic Devices (Presentation)
Presenter: Dr. Mike Szekeres
One of the standards of care for treating upper limb injuries is to prescribe a removable splint or orthosis, which help fractures and other soft tissues to heal and to decrease pain and inflammation.
A multidisciplinary team is working with clinical partners at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre (located at St. Joseph’s Health Care), patient partners, and the FHS MSK-IF to develop a wearable device that measures splint adherence through temperature and surface electromyography (sEMG) to understand the relationship between splinting (immobilization) and tissue healing and other important outcomes.
Virtual Bone Health Program for Fragility Fracture (Presentation)
Presenter: Dr. Tina Ziebart
A multidisciplinary team is working with clinical partners at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre and Community Rehab Clinics, patient partners, and the FHS MSK-IF to refine a virtual post first-fragility fracture bone health program developed at the Hand and Upper Limb Centre with the goal of making it suitable for scale-up to middle-aged adults with upper extremity or spinal fragility fractures. The program focuses on improving bone health through changes in diet, exercise, safe movement, medication, and falls prevention strategies.
