Hand and Upper Limb Centre- HULC Clinical Research

The HULC research team is presenting our pain research at the Chronic Pain Network's virtual meeting (March 22-23)! Visit our posters & chat with Joy MacDermid, Maryam Farzad, Erfan Shafiee and Pavlos Bobos, to learn more about our Chronic Pain Network projects!

The result of our recent paper indicated: .Chronic wrist-related pain at 6-months can be predicted by either elevated PAR 3/10) or MEP ( 6/10) reported at 2...-months after the injury, while disability experienced at 6-months after DRF is best predicted by MEP (7/10) reported at 2-months. The ratio of these two pain indicators increases assessment complexity and reduces classification accuracy. See more

Do you suffer from HAND OA? if so, please consider participating in our study below!

PT researchers are trying to understand the barriers towards accessing PT after an upper limb surgery! if you have had a shoulder or elbow replacement surgery, please fill out our survey and let us know your thoughts! click below ... https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bxcgAudI3OwVCzH

Check out our team's papers on this work: Finger forces: https://www.jhandtherapy.org//S0894-1130(20)30079/fulltext Joint protection programs (JPP): https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/ptc-2019-0037... Our paper on JPP Barriers, Facilitators, Preferences & Expectations of Patients with Hand Arthritis was accepted by BMJ Open this week!

Our research on joint protection in hand OA (Co-PIs: Drs. MacDermid, Lalone & Ferreira; Trainee: Bobos) was highlighted in the Arthritis Society's Top 10 Research Advances of 2020! Thank you Arthritis Society for funding this important work! https://arthritis.ca//res/top-10-research-advances-of-2020

Our Scientific Director, Dr. Joy MacDermid, is joining CARWH's panel discussion (Jan 21, 2-3 pm EST) on the ways in which their KT work has been challenged by C...OVID, and how they are approaching KT in 2021 and beyond! Register here (free but limited!): https://bit.ly/39fZpDW Send questions in for the panelists in advance here: https://surveymonkey.com/r/D9HZ9PL

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1cMkEwCg4Gq~ Link to read full article

Open-access link: https://www.tandfonline.com//abs/10./24740527.2020.1712653