Using wearable technology to assist with decision-making on hip and knee replacements

Keywords Wearable technology, exercise medicine, joint arthroplasty Introduction In 2015, I wrote a BJSM Blog on “Deciding when it is time to have a knee replacement”,[1] arguing for a shift away from using structural markers to assess need for knee replacement (such as X-ray and MRI) to objective functional markers. I suggested a cut off […]

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Official Announcement: JL Kemp and co-authors win 2012/13 BJSM Systematic Review Award

By Erin Macri, MPT, MSc, PhD Candidate Systematic reviews are the current gold standard method for synthesizing and critically appraising clinically-relevant literature. So among a collection of publications all employing a criterion methodology for reviewing the literature, how does one go about determining the ‘best’ systematic review? The criteria for BJSM’s systematic reviews are: Topic that […]

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