NIHR RSS webinar: Better Methods Better Research (BMBR) Funding Programme The webinar will cover the scope and aims of BMBR, features of strong applications, and experience from a recent successful applicant. Join the webinar on March 16 at 12-1pm: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3410304...

See the latest updates in our February newsletter - exciting news of recruitment of both sites and participants.

Disruption and uncertainty in the US are leading many clinical trials to consider other countries for participation. How is the research landscape changing—and why are some places making a major play for trials fleeing the US? https://bit.ly/3ZFoLG4

"The greatest flaw in clinical medicine might be our desire to banish uncertainty." In this Editor's Choice, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social reflects on the tyranny of clinical fear www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Outcomes after reoperated medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasties compared with primary total and primary unicompartmental knee arthroplasties: a cohort study based on local Danish databases Christian Bredgaard Jensen et al. doi.org/10.2340/1745... #Arthroplasty #Knee

Reassuring predictable results that kinesiophobia following Bankart repair associated with poorer functional outcomes & return to sport by 12 months. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New systematic review on surgical approach for hip arthroplasty & gait/functional outcomes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This month in #OAC Hyodo et al. assessed the effects of imeglimin, a novel anti-diabetic agent related to metformin, on the development and progression of knee #OA. Read more 📚: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Narrative review updates an ongoing review of visual analog/numeric scale scores and clinical measures in patients with RA and OA over 45 years, 1979-2024. Updated data showed median swollen joint counts declined 1989-2022 in RA patients, whereas median pain VNS scores remained similar

📣 Are you a researcher? Interested in #PPIE? 👀 Watch the NIHR PPI webinar: How to develop a PPI group 🗓️ 18 Feb, 10.30am Find out about the Bristol-based PPI group, working as part of the #HeartSurgery #prehabilitation research team 👉 Register: bit.ly/4t31evY

Well done @nnuh.bsky.social Orthopaedic & Physiotherapy teams for being the @nihr.bsky.social REPPORT trial top recruiter. Well done them & all hospitals involved in this @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social CTU trial. NNUH Press release - www.nnuh.nhs.uk/press-releas...

Interesting qualitative investigation exploring patient's willingness to enrol on a RCT of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM) vs. enhanced conservative care when they had already failed conservative care. One to bookmark 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The risk of revision using tourniquet or not in primary total knee replacement: an observational study from the Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Register Annette W-Dahl, Johan Kärrholm, Perna Ighani Arani, Ola Rolfson doi.org/10.2340/1745... #Arthroplasty #Knee #Osteoarthrosis

🗞️Read more here: www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/news/ndorms-... @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Trial protocol to look out for assessing an integrating psychological physio intervention on post-operative rehab outcomes after Latarjet shoulder stabilisation vs. conventional physical therapy alone bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/1...

Great work from the SCIENCE study team! 👏 Results: science.digitrial.com/results Full paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @oxtraumaresearch.bsky.social

Are you an NIHR Predoctoral Award holder with a background in social care? Or have you supervised an award holder who does? If so please can you get in touch? I have a potential applicant with a domicillary care / support work background who is looking for potential supervisors. @nihr.bsky.social

‘Identifying Social Factors that Stratify Health Opportunities and Outcomes (ISSHOOs) in Pain Research’: Explanation and elaboration to support the standardised reporting of equity-relevant data - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

Evaluation of tools used to assess adherence to PRISMA 2020 reveals inconsistent methods and poor tool implementability: part I of a systematic review - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

New review of patient-reported outcome measures in clinical trials in hip fracture - 28 different PROMs were from 189 trials link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nice literature review on the state of play in Total Ankle Replacement surgery - with extra lovely 'tabloid title' of "early failures to fourth-generation innovations" 😀 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some reflections on research trials in rehabilitation.... doi.org/10.1177/0269...

IMPORTANT new paper published today by @streweek.bsky.social & colleagues: the INCLUDE socioeconomic disadvantage framework to help make the design of trials more inclusive of people experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Caught up with the fab @nnuh.bsky.social physiotherapy team today who are running our @nihr.bsky.social GRRAND trial on rehab following head & neck cancer surgery. Super team, doing super stuff & great to see this being offered in Norfolk 👏🏻

🌟New to on-site monitoring for academic clinical trials?🌟 Check out our website for tips, insights & training developed by experienced monitors in Registered CTUs: tinyurl.com/58t2fh8u 💬 What advice do you wish you’d had starting out? #UKCTUNetwork #TrialMonitoring #ClinicalTrials

Super @britorthopaedic.bsky.social BASK Trainee Collaborative paper. Of >36,000 isolated knee chondral lesions, most treated with chondroplasty & microfracture BUT currently major variation in AMIC, OATS, ACI & injection usage = NICE guideline adoption varied. www.thekneejournal.com/article/S096...

Craig Jones, Chief Executive of the Royal Osteoporosis Society, said: “We welcome NICE’s recommendation to add vertebral fracture assessment to routine bone scans."

✨Join my research team ✨ Exciting opportunity for Research Associate (Research Ethics & Law) to join new Wellcome-funded Addressing consent-based challenges to improve inclusivity in research (ACCORD) Full-time G6 Fixed term 8 yrs From 1 March Closes 10 Feb krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Automated chatbots in knee arthroplasty recovery. 'Potential effect' of promoting exercise adherence to early post-op home rehab. In @thecsp.bsky.social Physiotherapy journal www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...

At what point date in January do we stop writing 'Happy New Year' in the opening sentences of emails? Any consensus?

🚨 Only 2 DAYS LEFT! 🚨 The extended abstract submission deadline for the BPS2026 ASM is fast approaching. Get your abstracts in and join us at #BPS2026! www.bpsasm.org/scientific-information/abstract-submission/

The SCOOTT is a multicentre, three-arm, RCT which is currently being undertaken, comparing the clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of an enhanced package of non-surgical management, trapeziectomy, and thumb CMCJA. #RCT #Thumb #Ortho #Surgery #Trial #OrthoSky #MedSky ow.ly/Mio350XToqI

Arash Ghaffari & coauthors found that that frequency-based gait metrics from wearable sensors are sensitive digital biomarkers for short-term functional improvements after total knee arthroplasty: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Categorisation of health behaviours in people after hip & knee arthroplasty who experience a lower limb deep vein thrombosis...LCA models but interesting reflections on utility in Discussion. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/1...

Internet rehab programme post-ACL reconstruction. Systematic review of effectiveness but I'd also like to know about degree of engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy New Year to all.

🆕 How does age of death vary across England and Wales? There is wide variation at local authority level in the proportion of people who die aged under 75 – from 50% in Tower Hamlets, to only 22% in Dorset. Read the analysis by @sarahscobie.bsky.social and @stutibagri.bsky.social: buff.ly/20unIxr

NEWSFLASH: The report for BEPOP wave 2 has now been published, find it here: research.ncl.ac.uk/ageresearchg...

Our NIHR Newcastle BRC funded MET-PREVENT trial now published - no improvement in physical performance or quality of life with 4 maths of metformin in older people with sarcopenia and frailty (but lots of side effects) @nihr.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social @nihrnewcastlebrc.bsky.social

The number of patients entering clinical trials in the UK fell by 27% from 2018 to 2023 and new industry trials declined 38%. To revive clinical research we need to streamline systems and dismantle bureaucracy, writes @masudhusain.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...

📣 Attention! ❗ CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! ❗ We'd love to hear about all the innovation you're doing in #AddingLifeToYears for our older people. ☀️ Submit an abstract for our national Conference here: tinyurl.com/AgileAbstract

🚀 We're looking for 2 Assistant Professors to work at the new Bennett School of Public Policy. They'll play a leading role in helping to establish a new M.Phil in Digital Policy & also in relation to the existing successful M.Phil in Public Policy. Apply by 10 March '25 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50248/

Norfolk Sunday Morning

Funders expect evidence of 'promise' (the intervention is likely to work) when considering whether to fund an RCT, pilot, or feasibility study. But there is no shared understanding of how we should do this. We have been funded by @nihr.bsky.social to develop guidance to help.

Brace of knife for medial knee OA? Unloader brace or high tibial osteotomy in the treatment of the young patient with medial knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial #OpenAccess in Acta 👇👇👇 https://buff.ly/3QgMqYH

Incidence, treatment, and mortality of ankle fractures: a Danish population-based cohort study Per H Gundtoft, Alma B Pedersen, Bjarke Viberg buff.ly/UFaAEAz #AnkleFracture #FootandAnkle #Fractures #Incidence #MalleollusFracture #Mortality #Population

Identifying recovery trajectories following primary total shoulder arthroplasty: a cohort study of 3,358 patients from the Dutch Arthroplasty Register Mirthe H W van Veghel, Liza N van Steenbergen, Cornelis P J Visser, B Willem Schreurs, Gerjon Hannink buff.ly/gXpTQqe #Arthroplasty #Shoulder

Feasibility study of a physical activity intervention for people receiving cancer treatment in hospitals. Some recruitment challenges but also some positive findings for this goal-setting based programme. www.physiotherapyjournal.com/article/S003...

DW. A study in 72 people have lumbar fusion surgery; why do a non-randomised study of "REACT rehabilitation pathway includes prehabilitation, early mobilization and avoidance of unsubstantiated postoperative restrictions"? The data cannot be interpreted. link.springer.com/article/10.1...