BME Seminar: Kristen Renner
Monday, January 24, 2022 — 12:00 p.m., MST
Kristen Renner
Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Arizona
"What More is There to Say About ACL Injuries? The Injury That Keeps on Giving"
Keating 103
Live Zoom | Passcode: BearDown
(Instructor permission required for enrolled students to attend via Zoom)
Hosts: Dr. Beth Hutchinson and Dr. Russ Witte
ABSTRACT:
ACL injury, reconstruction and rehabilitation is one of the most discussed and researched sports medicine topics. In fact, if you do a quick PubMed search over 19,000 articles have been published on just this one ligament. You might think that everything that could be written about has been done – but the NIH approved over 8 million dollars in research studies in 2021, so clearly, there is much work still being done. This seminar will give an overview of three research studies concerning ACL reconstruction and return-to-play criteria. The topics to be discussed will include limb asymmetry following ACL reconstruction, return-to-sport criteria, and the impact of psychological readiness to return-to-sport. In discussing these studies, different aspects of ACL injury and recovery will be introduced, and several facets of biomechanics research methodology will be discussed. Finally, we will dive into the world of what comes next for ACL research.
BIO:
Dr. Kristen Renner is a biomedical engineer who specializes in human movement biomechanics. Dr. Renner uses a multidisciplinary approach to promote the restoration of normal, functional movement as a means of improving the overall health and quality of life of individuals across their lifespan. Dr. Renner’s current research interests focus on optimizing total joint replacement outcomes and developing models to assess and mitigate sports injury risk and return to sport criteria after injury.