The Orthopaedic Research Institute (ORI) works across the university and with hospitals, industry partners and academia to produce high quality research and educational outputs that have a proven impact for patients, clinicians and society.
New wearable technology study to monitor activity levels after knee replacement surgery
Review on the use of electrical stimulation in Covid-19 patients
Implementation of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery following the Covid-19 pandemic
In England elective surgeries, such as hip and knee replacements, have been postponed to make bed space for patients requiring admission to hospital due to Covid-19. Head of ORI and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor Robert Middleton, has provided some advice for patients who have had their hip replacements postponed. “The NHS has postponed many scheduled… Read more »
Head of ORI, Professor Robert Middleton, has been appointed as one of the Medical Commanders at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each Medical Commander is available for 24 hours a day to respond to any changes that require medical decisions, in order to provide a safe and effective service for patients…. Read more »
Earlier this month, Associate Professor Tom Wainwright was invited to speak in Newcastle at a conference jointly hosted by The British Association of Day Surgery, and the Quality Improvement in Surgical Teams (QIST) collaborative from Northumbria Healthcare. Tom was invited to the event by Prof Mike Reed, and was asked to talk about “Using Data… Read more »
This October, head of ORI, Professor Robert Middleton travelled to Beijing, China for the 2019 Workshop of Digital Innovation for Surgery Planning, Simulation and Treatment in China and the UK. Under the Researcher Links scheme (offered with the Newton Fund), Beihang University hosted the workshop in the Liaoning Hotel, Beijing from 16th-18th October 2019. The… Read more »
Associate Professor Tom Wainwright recently visited Halifax in Canada as the guest of Professor Sean Christie, who is the Vice Chair and Director of Research within the Division of Neurosurgery at Dalhousie University. Prof Christie, Past President of the Canadian Spine Society, invited Tom to lecture at Grand Rounds after Tom had delivered a keynote… Read more »
By Louise Burgess This September, with funding from the Santander Mobility Grant, facilitated by the Bournemouth University Fundraising team, I was fortunate enough to travel to Boston, Massachusetts, to visit some of the world-leading experts in osteoarthritis research. My visit was kindly hosted by Dr Julie Keysor, who was Director of Boston University’s Centre for… Read more »
Since July 2019, ORI has been busy recruiting patients having robotic total hip replacement surgery at the Nuffield Hospital, into an observational study to evaluate recovery following Mako-Robotic-Arm assisted total hip replacement. Baseline assessments have now been carried out on over 20 patients, and we are aiming to recruit 100 patients as part of the… Read more »
“As a recent Psychology graduate I decided to explore my options within the field. I was luckily given the exciting opportunity to work alongside ORI on a research project, exploring how mental health smartphone applications are implemented and their impact on mental health. This was part of a larger future project researching how such applications… Read more »
As a psychology student at Bournemouth University, I was delighted to have the opportunity to join the Orthopaedic research Institute team this summer as a Student Research Assistant. Working closely with Ranti Samaratunga on her PhD project which explores the Development and Evaluation of a Dedicated Simulator for Hip Surgery Training, I worked on evaluating… Read more »
ORI is pleased to announce that Professor Ian Swain and Associate Professor Tom Wainwright have been invited by the Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering to be guest editors for a “Special Collection on Assistive Technology for Osteoarthritis”. This Special Collection invites work from projects using a range of Assistive Technologies which place the… Read more »
