News:
25.08.2023
Congratulations to Lucien after the successful defence of his thesis with the title "Association between pre- to 3-month postoperative changes in patient reported outcome measures, gait and lower limb alignment induced by total knee arthroplasty".
20.08.2023
Congratulations to Miriam Schönbächler for successfully finishing her thesis on "Reliability of resting serum concentration of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein and the effect of pre- sample physical activity considering the compliance to pre-sample physical activity restrictions".
14.08.2023
Welcome to our new research intern and master student Maxine Gygax, who joins the "RoLSSroice" study team to investigate patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.
06.06.2023
Congratulations to Petros & team for the publication of their latest paper on "Distal femoral osteotomy for the valgus knee: indications,
complications, clinical and radiological outcome" in Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery!
26.05.2023
Research meeting in Ulm: Together with our project partners from the Department of Spine Surgery at the University Hospital Basel and the Institute for Biomechanics at ETH Zurich, we met with colleagues at the Institut für Unfallchirurgische Forschung in Ulm to discuss opportunities for collaborations.
09.05.2023
Welcome to our new master student Leon Schooff, who is investigating the association between gait biomechanics and the quality of articular cartilage within the MechSens project.
25.04.2023
Welcome to our new master student Franziska Schmitter, who is investigating gait biomechanics in patients with osteoarthritis after total knee- and hip endoprosthesis.
01.03.2023
Welcome to our new master student Mark Degenhardt, who overtakes the study administration of the CAT study at the Bethesda outpatient clinic. For his MSc thesis, Mark will investigate inter-joint coupling of the lower extremity in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Awards:
2023 - Best Poster Award, 2nd Price, Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Sports (L. Bühl)
2023 - Best Presentation Award - DJO GLobal, Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Sports, Finalist (A. Mündermann)
2023 - GAMMA Science Award (focus on clinical relevance of movement analysis), 3rd Price, (C. Nüesch)
2023 - Best Poster Award, 2nd Price, Gesellschaft für die Analyse Menschlicher Motorik in ihrer klinischen Anwendung (GAMMA) (C. Nüesch)
2023 - Best Poster Award, 1st Price, Gesellschaft für die Analyse Menschlicher Motorik in ihrer klinischen Anwendung (GAMMA) (L. Bühl)
2021 - Best Oral Presentation, Swiss Spine Society (C. Nüesch)
2021 - Clinical Biomechanics Award Finalist, International Society of Biomechanics (E. De Pieri)
2021 - Young Investigator Award 2nd Price, German Society of Biomechanics (L. Bühl)
2018 - Research Award, Swiss Society of Sports Medicine (with A. Leumann)
2017 - Finalist, Best Poster Award, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomechanik (C. Nüesch)
2016 - 2nd Price, GOTS Young Investigator Award - by Ottobock, Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Traumatologie im Sport (E. Roos)
2016 - Finalist, Spolastic Poster Award, Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Traumatologie im Sport (C. Nüesch)
2016 - 2nd Place, Karger Award, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel (D. Laffer)
2015 - Finalist Paper, Maurice E. Mueller Award, Swiss Orthopedics (A. Mündermann)
2014 - Best Paper Award, German Society of Biomechanics (A. Mündermann)