We had good news this week as another paper from the Orthopaedic Research Institute was accepted for publication in Microvascular Research Journal. The effect of calf neuromuscular electrical stimulation and intermittent pneumatic compression on thigh microcirculation article was Shay Bahadori’s first publication as a first author in collaboration with Tikki Immins and Tom Wainwright. Article was… Read more » about Comparison of NMES and IPC device on Enhancing Microcirculatory blood flow accepted for publication

“A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators for Orthopaedic Surgery” was accepted for publication in November 2015 by Medical Engineering & Physics.  It was completed by Rob Middleton and Tom Wainwright in collaboration with Dr Neil Vaughan and Dr Venkitesh Dubey from the Faculty of Science of Technology, and follows successful presentations1 2 by the team on… Read more » about A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators for Orthopaedic Surgery

It was good news this week as 3 papers from the Orthopaedic Research Institute were accepted for publication. The articles demonstrate the diversity of research interests within ORI and also the collaborative nature of our work across the university. The first paper, accepted by Medical Engineering & Physics is a “A Review of Virtual Reality Based Training Simulators… Read more » about Three ORI papers accepted for publication this week

Tom Wainwright, Associate Professor in Orthopaedics and Deputy Head of ORI, was invited to speak at the CoPMRE Twelfth Annual Symposium – Human Factors: reducing risk in healthcare on the 7th October 2015. The conference was a sell out and attracted a mixture of primary and secondary care doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, Trusts board members and… Read more » about Reliable design for safety and quality improvement