- Call for third round of research
proposals focused on bone stress injuries (BSI).
- Up to $1.5 million available in a third
call for research proposals focused on bone stress injuries
(BSI).
- Four research proposals selected from
investigators across the globe to address acute myotendinous
injuries.
Today, the National Basketball Association (NBA) & GE
Healthcare (NYSE: GE) Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Collaboration
issued a new call for proposals (CFP) focused on bone stress
injuries (BSI), a frequent and debilitating injury for both the
elite and the everyday athlete. The collaboration simultaneously
announced the latest round of winning research proposals that
address myotendinous injuries, specifically targeting strains,
tears, ruptures, or pulls of the hamstring and calf.
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The NBA & GE Healthcare Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Collaboration was established to fund research that addresses the
prevention, diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries*
affecting NBA players and everyday athletes. Through the funded
research, the collaboration aims to increase understanding of the
mechanisms of injury to reduce the impact of future injuries by
investigating prevention and rehabilitation programs and developing
new and improved tools for diagnosis and treatment. The
collaboration is directed by a Strategic Advisory Board, led by Dr.
John DiFiori, the NBA’s Director of Sports Medicine, and an NBA
& GE Healthcare Steering Committee.
The latest call for research proposals is aimed at advancing the
understanding of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of
bone stress injuries (BSI) in elite and everyday athletes. BSI can
impair performance, limit playing time, disrupt an athletic career,
and cause ongoing risk of re-injury.
“GE Healthcare is excited to collaborate with the NBA and invest
in this research,” said John Sabol, Chief Scientist for Global
Research at GE Healthcare. “Together, we hope to encourage the
scientific and clinical research communities worldwide to bring
their skills and ideas to advance, as well as challenge,
established paradigms in an effort to better understand and improve
the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of bone stress
injuries.”
Specific areas of research interest for
this CFP include:
- Advancements in imaging to improve
prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of BSI – including
imaging techniques to improve the understanding of bone health and
risk factors for BSI and re-injury.
- Prevention and management of BSI
- including quantifiable exposure factors, metabolic factors, bone
quality thresholds and biomechanical risk factors, and
epidemiological determinants.
Additionally, as part of their collaboration, the NBA and GE
Healthcare today announced the awardees of four research proposals
selected from investigators across the globe to address acute
myotendinous injuries.
“Myotendinous injuries are a common issue among basketball
players at all levels of the game - from NBA players to the athlete
joining a local pick-up game,” said Dr. DiFiori. “While there are
prevention programs prescribed for varying levels of play, we are
working to increase our understanding of the best techniques for
clinical assessment and choices of imaging modalities to improve
health outcomes and limit the impact on athletic performance for
athletes at all levels.”
Using a competitive application process with a rigorous
scientific review, leading academic and healthcare institutions
were selected from the following locations:
University of Newcastle, Australia (Dr. Suzi Edwards) The
HAMI Study: Investigating Hamstring and Adductor Myotendinous
Injury Risk Factors in Basketball.Dr. Edwards and her team will
study top male Australian basketball players to determine the role
of biomechanical (how a person moves) and neural (how the brain
signals muscles) factors in muscle injuries. This novel
multidisciplinary research may lead to improved injury prevention
and rehabilitation programs for athletes by increasing our
understanding of how an athlete runs, how muscle structure changes,
and how an injury alters brain signals to muscles.
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam (Dr. Johannes Tol) Game
changing innovative sports research: The Basketball and Muscle
Injury (BAMI) study.The BAMI study targets preventing hamstring
and calf muscle injuries and re-injuries. In the first of three
separate studies, researchers in Amsterdam will use magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) to examine what actually goes on within
injured muscles to help in preventing re-injury. The second and
third studies will use strength testing and MRI to determine which
exercises are the best for preventing hamstring and calf muscle
injuries.
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Dr. Bryan Heiderscheit)
Clinical, Biomechanical, and Novel Imaging Biomarkers of Hamstring
Strain Injury Potential in Elite Athletes.Investigators from
The University of Wisconsin will conduct a prospective longitudinal
study of high-level athletes to improve risk assessment for
hamstring strain injuries. Athletes will be monitored for exposure
and injury throughout training and competition with injured
athletes monitored with diffusion tensor magnetic resonance and
shear wave ultrasound imaging during and after their rehabilitation
period. Findings from this study may improve injury risk assessment
and establish objective criteria to assess the risk of re-injury
upon returning to play.
The Mayo Clinic (Dr. Timothy Hewett) Comparative
Effectiveness of Hamstring Muscle Strain Injury Prevention
Programs.Dr. Hewett and his team at the Mayo clinic will
investigate the effectiveness of hamstring muscle strain injury
prevention programs in 1000 high school basketball athletes. They
plan to study how these programs impact flexibility, muscle
stiffness, strength and power. They will use an advanced ultrasound
imaging technique (shear wave elastography) to measure muscle
stiffness and determine if it can be used to predict future
hamstring injuries.
Beginning today, research proposals are being accepted
here. This CFP will award a total of up to $1.5 million over
a three-year period to support research addressing important
unanswered questions regarding BSI prevention, diagnosis, and
treatment. The maximum amount for an individual submission is
$300,000 including direct and indirect costs for the entire
research period. Smaller, focused, and impactful projects requiring
less support are strongly encouraged.
The deadline to submit BSI research proposals is April 17,
2017. For more information about these calls for proposals and/or
the application process, please visit the website at
https://gex.brightidea.com/GENBACFP.
*Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are injuries or disorders of
the muscles, nerves, tendons, joints, cartilage, and disorders of
the nerves, tendons, muscles and supporting structures of the upper
and lower limbs, neck, and lower back that are caused, precipitated
or exacerbated by sudden exertion or prolonged exposure to physical
factors such as repetition, force, vibration, or awkward posture.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/msd/.
About GE Healthcare
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services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality
and more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE)
works on things that matter - great people and technologies taking
on tough challenges. From medical imaging, software &
IT, patient monitoring and diagnostics to drug discovery,
biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance
improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps medical professionals
deliver great healthcare to their patients. For more information
visit our website www.gehealthcare.com.
About the NBA
The NBA is a global sports and media business built around three
professional sports leagues: the National Basketball Association,
the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the NBA
Development League. The league has established a major
international presence with games and programming in 215 countries
and territories in 49 languages, and NBA merchandise for sale in
more than 125,000 stores in 100 countries on 6 continents. NBA
rosters at the start of the 2016-17 season featured a record 113
international players from 41 countries and territories. NBA
Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com and the NBA App, which
achieved record viewership and traffic during the 2015-16 season.
The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in
the world, with more than 1.3 billion likes and followers globally
across all league, team, and player platforms. Through NBA Cares,
the league addresses important social issues by working with
internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support
education, youth and family development, and health-related
causes.
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