Explore the APPROACH poster presentations at the OARSI World Congress, May 2019, Canada

The annual OARSI Congress is a multidisciplinary global forum for everyone interested in ground-breaking research in Osteoarthritis from academia and industry all across the world. Such interested parties include clinical research scientists, radiologists, physiatrists, physical therapists, rheumatologists, orthopaedic surgeons, methodologists, various health professionals with different backgrounds, but also policy makers and other allied professionals.

The 2019 World Congress comprised an interdisciplinary program with plenary sessions on Machine Learning, Mechanotransduction Pathways, and the Transition from Acute to Chronic Pain. Dr. Clifford Rosen delivered the opening night Keynote Lecture on Pathogenic Mechanisms of Obesity-Induced Osteoarthritis: New Clues from Old Joints.

Among the topics debated, Osteoarthritis of the joints other than the knees and hips was discussed in a Concurrent session on the foot and ankle, as well as a Pre-Congress Workshop on the spine. Another Pre-Congress workshop focused on the prevention of post-traumatic OA in sport and the military. The rest of the workshop topics included: “Joint-on-a-chip” technologies, Patient preferences, Imaging, Gait Analysis, Network Meta-Analysis, and OA Pathogenesis for Beginners.  Moreover, highlights from the upcoming OARSI Treatment Guidelines were presented to the audience. As a tradition, there were sessions presenting the highest-rated young investigator abstracts, the great debate, and the year-in-review. Furthermore, there were poster tours led by experts in the field.

Among them were the following posters from the APPROACH research project:

INTERSITE COMPARISON AND TEST-RETEST RELIABILITY OF CARTILAGE THICKNESS AND COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS IN THE APPROACH STUDY - A 2-YEAR MULTICENTER EUROPEAN EXPLORATORY STUDY FOR PHENOTYPE CHARACTERIZATON OF KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS

Presented by Felix Eckstein on the OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis in Toronto, Canada, May 2-5, 2019.

GAIT KINEMATICS FOR PATIENTS WITH EARLY STAGE KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS -THE APPROACH PROJECT 

Presented by Diana Hodgins on the OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis in Toronto, Canada, May 2-5, 2019.