1) Basic Science Resident Education
2) Resident Projects
3) Medical Student Projects
4) Undergraduate Engineering Courses
5) Undergraduate Special Investigations
6) Graduate Student Projects/Thesis
7) Summer internships.
The lab provides instruction to the Orthopaedic resident in the area of orthopaedic biomechanics as part of their Basic Science curriculum. This typically entails three lectures per year.
Resident / Fellow Projects
2004-Brian Adams, MD: Hand and/or wrist Biomechanics.
2004-Michael Bradley, MD: ACL Graft Tension
2004-Robert Campbell, MD: Bone mineralization & carbonated beverages
2004-Matthew Enna, MD: Fracture healing & matralin knock-out mice
2004-John Hur, MD: Acetabular Reconstruction
2004-Florian Nickisch, MD: Radiofrequency Ablation.
2004-Mark Ritter, MD: Muscle function at the knee after local anesthesia
2004-Robert Tashjian, MD: Evaluation of the effect of tear size on fixation strength in rotator cuff repairs: a cadaveric comparison of bone tunnels versus suture anchors
Joseph Izzi, MD: Intercarpal stability of plate vs k-wire fixation.
2003-Jonathan Schiller, MD: Limb Lengthening, carpal tunnel release.
2002-Eric Bluman MD, Ph.D.: Adoptive cellular immunotherapy of chondrosarcoma, Effect of stretching on heal cord length and forefoot morphology.
2002-Jeffrey Brooks, MD: Acromial Angle.
2002-David Dennison, MD: Intercarpal stability of plate vs k-wire fixation.
2002-Avi Kumar, MD: In vivo Shoulder Kinematics.
2002-David Green, MD: Multidirectional bending properties of the human lumbar intervertebral disc.
2001-Lana Kang, MD: In vivo kinematics of the scaphotrapezialtrapezoidal joint.
2001-Justin Greisberg, MD: Heel cord stretching.
2000-Winslow Alford, MD: Reduction of stress concentration from screw holes in bone.
1998-Dina Galvin, MD: Effects of SLIL tears on 3D carpal kinematics in vivo.
1997-Steve Kalandiak, MD: In vivo Shoulder Kinematics.
1997-Michael Belanger, MD: The relationships between menstrual cycle and joint laxity.
1997-Michael Staebler, MD: The effects of wrist guards on bone strain.
Undergraduate Engineering
The lab Director has taught the following Biomechanics courses in the Brown University Division of Engineering: Biomechanics, EN121(1997); Solids Biomechanics, EN194S03 (1996); Biomechanics, EN121 (1995).
Each semester the lab supports engineering students enrolled in a special investigation course for design/research: EN195 and EN196.
2004-B.S.-Kahn, D: Constructing a dominant negative matralin transgene: analysis of cartilage matrix adhesions
2004-B.S.-Fujita, L: A novel pendulum apparatus to study the dynamic properties of the lumbar spine
2004-B.A.-Uber, B: A 3-D analysis of the mechanical properties of the lumbar spine.
2003-M.S.-Coburn, J: 3-D interpolation applied to wrist kinematics.
2003-M.S.-Spenciner, D: Multi-directional bending properties of the human lumbar intervertebral disc.
2003-M.S.-Sonenblum, S: In vivo motion of the scaphotrapezio-trapezoidial (STT) joint
2002-M.S.-Miller, M: 3-D in vivo vertibral kinematics: an accuracy study.
2002-M.S.-Lease, A: Quantification of Carpal Dimensions: The scaphoid, lunate, capitate, and trapezoid.
2000-M.S. Pike, S: Carpal Bone Postures and Motions Are Abnormal In Both Wrists Of Patients With Unilateral Scapholunate Interosseous Ligament Tears
2000-M.S. Torres, K: Development and Design of an Apparatus for Measuring Snowboard Boot & Binding Stiffness.
1999-M.S. Penna, L: Measuring Baseball Bat Performance: An Analysis of the Measurement Systems Used in Two Baseball Bat Performance Studies.
1999-M.S. Neu, C: Three-dimensional in vivo carpal kinematics: methodology, accuracy and application.
1996-B.S. Dunn TC: Wave velocity in ligamentous tissue.