Anna won the 2022 GOTS Research Award for her randomised clinical trial entitled "Comparison of dynamic and static medial patellofemoral ligament operation technique for recurrent patellar dislocation"!

Marina submitted her Master thesis on the "Effect of load carriage on joint kinematics, ground reaction force and muscle activity: treadmill versus overground walking" to the Journal of Biomechanics!

Congratulations on the team for several new publications!

Welcome to our new team member Constanze Dammeyer (MSc Candidate, Movement Science)!

Welcome to our new team members Kathrin Fiedler and Fabian Warmuth (both MSc Candidates, Sport and Movement Science)!

Congratulations to Corina for being awarded best oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Schweizerische Gesellschaft für spinale Chirurgie for our work on „Differences in kinematics and electromyographic patterns during walking between patients with symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis and healthy controls“ with PD Dr. Cordula Netzer and Prof. Stefan Schären!

Welcome to our new team members Marina Künzler (MSc Candidate Biomedical Engineering), Florian Geiser, Sean Börlin and Valerie Lenhard (all Mmed Candidates)!

Filippo's paper on qualitative vs. quantitative assessment of "Assessing Fatty Infiltration of Paraspinal Muscles in Patients With Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: Goutallier Classification and Quantitative MRI Measurements"has been published in the Neuromuscular Disorders and Peripheral Neuropathies Section of the journal Frontiers in Neurology.

Larissa completed her theses on "Strength and Postural Stability after Total Hip Arthroplasty - A Cross-Sectional Study"

Congratulations to Petros on publication of his systematic review and meta-analysis on hip abductor strength in patients before and after total hip replacement!

Our med. Masterstudents completed their theses:

Valentina Tovo: "CSS – Assessing the course of degenerative cervical spinal stenosis using functional outcomes"

Natacha Bürgin: "Kinematik und Kinetik der unteren Extremität beim Gehen in der Ebene nach Sprunggelenkfraktur: Konservative versus operative Behandlung"

Mara Kaufmann: "Gait patterns in patients with severe hip osteoarthritis compared to healthy persons assessed by inertial sensor gait analysis"

Antonio Ferreira: "TenTed - Postoperative Bizepsstärke und elektromyographische Aktivität nach proximaler Bizeps-Tenotomie versus Tenodese bei Patienten mit arthroskopischer Rotatorenmanschettenruptur"

Welcome to our Angela who will focus on muscle co-contraction and proprioception in patients after primary ACL repair for her MSc thesis.

Birte completed her MSc thesis on performance and knee biomechanics in single leg hop for distance in patients after primary ACL repair compared to matched control subjects. Congratulations!

Welcome to our Meret who will focus on total knee replacements for her MSc thesis.

Congratulations to Petros on publication of his study on lateral trochlear lengthening osteotomy

Congratulations to Yuancheng for publishing his work on spinopelvic alignment as part of his MD dissertation!

Welcome to our new intern Nico Hügle.

Welcome to our new intern Niklas Bleichner.

Congratulations to Petros for publishing another article on gait biomechanics in knee osteoarthritis!

Congratulations to Simon for publishing the first paper for his PhD!

Congratulations to Petros and team on the third publication on the use of IMUs in patients with OA!

Welcome to our new team members: Eleonora and Jeremy will pursue their PhDs in our new SNSF funded project on shoulder biomechanics of rotator cuff tears.

Congratulations to Peter and team on publishing the protocol for the systematic review on hip abductor muscle strength deficit in patients after total knee arthroplasty for knee osteoarthritis! The results will be published shortly.

Welcome to our new team members: Filippo is an orthopaedic resident with focus on spine surgery and joined the team for a 1-year research fellowship. Michael and Jan started their MSc (movement science) thesis research on cartilage mechanosensitivity and hip arthroplasty, respectively.

Our collaborative work with Dr. Anna-Maria Liphardt (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany) on cartilage biomarkers is now available online!

Congratulations to Petros and team on publishing the protocol for the systematic review on abductor muscle strength deficit in patients after total hip arthroplasty for hip osteoarthritis! The results will be published shortly.

Congratulations to Petros and team on this first publication on the use of IMUs in patients with hip OA!

Welcome to our new intern Birte Coppers.

Congratulations to Sebastian for attracting funding to continue his project on "Klinische und funktionelle Resultate 2 Jahre nach VKB Naht mit Internal Brace Augmentation im Vergleich zur VKB Rekonstruktion unter Berücksichtigung sozioökonomischer Aspekte und Rückkehr zur Arbeitsfähigkeit". We thank the Deutsche Arthrosehilfe e.V. for this support!

Congratulations to the project team on this very nice publication!

Congratulations to Petros and his project team for getting this case study published!

Linda schloss ihre Masterarbeit erfolgreich ab. Herzliche Gratulation!

Our article on the experimental protocol for assessing in vivo articular cartilage mechanosensitivity as outcome of high tibial osteotomy in patients with medial compartment osteoarthritis is now online!

Welcome to our new intern David Koch.

Congratulations to Petros and his project team for getting this case study published!

Congratulations to Petros for attracting funding to continue his project on "Muscle function and dynamic and postural stability in patients receiving hip or knee arthroplasty". Petros started and worked on this project during his 1-year clinical research fellowship. The funding allows him to get the necessary research support now that he is back in the clinic. We thank the Deutsche Arthrosehilfe e.V. for this support!