Exploring bones and joints in action

Exploring bones and joints in action

Skeletal Observation Lab provides insight into every joint in the human body.

By Anne Craig

October 24, 2019

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The capabilities of the new equipment is demonstrated during the opening. Photo credit KHSC

Researchers at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 and Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) are celebrating the completion of a $2.5 million facility that offers unique, X-ray vision insights into the biomechanics of nearly any joint in the human body.

While advances in orthopedic medicine have improved the mobility of humans worldwide, the precise workings of our skeleton and its joints are still notoriously difficult to understand, particularly when in motion.

The (SOL), a facility supported by Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and KHSC at the Hotel Dieu (HDH) site, is helping to fill that gap. One of only a few such labs in Canada, it offers leading-edge technologies for capturing, in exquisite detail, how the machinery of our bones and joints work when they카지노 게임 컬렉션re in dynamic action.

During the opening event, Michael Rainbow, the lab카지노 게임 컬렉션s lead investigator and assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, and David Pichora, orthopedic surgeon and president & CEO of Kingston Health Sciences Centre, demonstrated the new, ultra low-dose, load-bearing CAT scanner. Unlike conventional CT machines, which require patients to lie down, with no load on their joints, this scanner can perform 3D scans while the person is standing.

A closer look at the new equipment. Photo credit KHSC

The lab is helping doctors and scientists develop new treatments and preventative strategies tailored to individual bone and joint disorders.

Dr. Rainbow demonstrated how the lab카지노 게임 컬렉션s powerful imaging equipment 카지노 게임 컬렉션 such as high-speed X-ray, and high speed video capable of 1,000 frames per second 카지노 게임 컬렉션 helps him explore the complex machinery of foot function during walking and running.

카지노 게임 컬렉션Better understanding of this complicated network of bones and joints will lead to better designed footwear, prosthetics and orthotics for patients,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says.

The Skeletal Observation Laboratory is a satellite facility of the Human Mobility Research Centre at KHSC카지노 게임 컬렉션s Kingston General Hospital site. It is co-located at HDH with the Human Motion Research Lab and the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Centre for Neurosciences clinical lab, enabling patient-oriented 카지노 게임 컬렉션research from brain to joints.카지노 게임 컬렉션 

Funders of the Skeletal Observation Lab and its research include the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science and Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, The Estate of Donald McGeachy, BSc (Mech Eng) 1940 and 카지노게임사이트 Hospitals Kingston Foundation (UHKF).

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