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Improve Knee Joint Health Through Exercise – Study

The Mobilize Lab at the University of Waterloo is recruiting participants between the ages of 25 to 44 years old, who are currently sedentary (> 20 minutes of exercise per day) to participate in their research study.

Participants will receive 16-weeks of FREE virtual resistance training, $50 after study completion, and those who regularly exercise will be entered into bi-weekly giveaways valued at $25!

Over a 20-week period, you will be asked to complete 3 online exercise classes per week, and visit the University of Waterloo (2x) and St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton (2x) to:

  • Take MRI scans of your knee before and after a treadmill walk to measure cartilage
  • Assess body size measurements
  • Collect blood, to measure immune and inflammatory cells
  • Analyze how your leg moves, to measure forces inside the knee
  • Complete questionnaires to assess your activity and health

To learn more visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/mobilize-clinical-biomechanics-lab/projects/do-you-need-momentum-get-active

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Help Shape the 2026 MSK Network Summer School!

Planning is underway for the 2026 MSK Network Summer School, and we want to ensure the program reflects the needs and interests of our community. To guide our planning, we are seeking input from both trainees and supervisors.

We invite you to complete a short, two-question survey to let us know which topics you believe would be most valuable to feature at the Summer School. Your feedback will directly inform the design of the program and help us deliver content that is timely, relevant, and impactful.

Access the survey here: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6PYjmo2e5M54UC2

Thank you in advance for taking a moment to share your perspective. Your contributions are essential to making the 2026 Summer School a meaningful and enriching experience for all.

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Become a MORE Rater for REHAB+!

The MSK Network is currently recruiting MORE raters for  Rehab+ , a free email alerting service and searchable database that brings high-quality evidence to the attention of occupational and physical therapists. 

 Please help us identify the best evidence for you and your peers! If you are currently practicing as an occupational therapist or physical therapist in a clinical setting or as a clinical practice leader or manager directly supervising clinical care, we invite you to become a rater for the McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE) system.  The MORE system collects your vote on the relevance and newsworthiness of hot-off-the-press articles within your clinical specialty. We supply online articles according to your clinical interests, and you rate the articles on 2 simple scales. This takes about 5 to 10 minutes. You can tell us how often you are willing to receive articles.  

Benefits to becoming a MORE rater:  

  • Stay current with the best evidence that has been critically appraised by methodology experts at McMaster’s HiRU. 
  • See what your peers are saying about the same article. 
  • Help build an evidence-based information service for you and your colleagues (Rehab+). 
  • Receive an annual summary of your ratings activity to include in your professional practice portfolio.  

If you would like to join us as a rater, please click on this link and provide your name and email address. You can also include the names and email addresses of any colleagues whom you feel would also be interested in joining us as a MORE rater. 

Please feel free to share this call with your networks as REHAB+ can only continue to exist if we increase our rater pool.  

PS If you haven’t already done so, we invite you to sign up for the free Rehab+ service to receive alerts of articles that pass the critical appraisal and MORE Rehab rating processes.  

If you have any questions about MORE Rehab, please let us know at morerehab@mcmasterhkr.com

We look forward to working with you! 

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Wording Approaches for the Strength of Recommendation – Survey

The McMaster GRADE Centre is seeking participants to complete a brief 5-minute survey on how to phrase health recommendations for broad audiences.

Access the brief survey here: https://www.research.net/r/RecWordingApproaches

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Help Shape Canada’s Bone Health Research for the Next Decade!

OsNET and the University of Waterloo are conducting a priority setting survey and looking for researchers, healthcare professionals, policy makers, other knowledge users, or persons with lived experience related to bone disease to share their voice in a two-step survey.

There are two steps in the study, both anonymous. The first step invites participants to submit what they think are important research priorities (up to five) related to bone health for Canadians in the next 10 years. Once all submissions are received, we will streamline and group them. It takes 10-15 minutes to complete the survey.

For step two, we will invite you to score submitted research priorities in groupings that are relevant to you. The criteria we will use to evaluate the research priorities relate to whether the research questions are answerable, have the potential to reduce the burden of bone disease or advance the field, and are accessible to, or are beneficial for equity-deserving groups. It takes about 10-30 minutes to complete the survey. Your submitted scores will be used to establish research priorities for bone health in Canadians over the next 10 years.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Research Assistant Hung Nguyen: hm5nguyen@uwaterloo.ca

For more information: https://osnet.ca/platforms/research-platform-2-clinical-research/osnet-priority-setting-project/?fb-edit=1

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Assistant or Associate Professor Western University School of Physical Therapy

The Western University Faculty of Health Sciences invites applications for a full-time probationary (tenure-track) position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in the School of Physical Therapy. Academic responsibilities will include teaching, research, and service in the area of practice of Upper Extremity Health and Rehabilitation.

Qualified applicants must have a PhD or equivalent in a related field and be eligible for licensure with the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario. Applicants with expertise and a track record in upper extremity clinical research are encouraged to apply.

The deadline for receipt of applications is May 22, 2025.

The effective date of the appointment is July 1, 2025, or as negotiated.

For more information: School_of_Physical_Therapy_Faculty_Position

 

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Seeking Participants – Survey on Telerehabilitation

If you are a rehabilitation patient who receives or has already received their care via telerehabilitation or who would be interested in telerehabilitation you are invited to participate in University of Montreal survey on your experiences.

Duration: Approximately 20 minutes

To participate please access this link: https://bit.ly/Sondage_Patients_Telereadaptation_Patients_Telerehabilitation_Survey

Contact Dahlia Dairy at 514-343-6111 ext. 14691 or at dahlia.kairy@umontreal.ca for a paper or PDF version, or if you need help completing the survey.

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Perspectives of Firefighters and Clinicians on the Causes and Management of Work-Related Shoulder Disorders – Seeking Participants

Clinicians (Physiotherapists, Orthopaedic Surgeons, Occupational Therapists) are invited to join a study on the causes and management of work-related shoulder disorders among firefighters. Eligible participants must have treated at least one firefighter with a work-related shoulder disorder/injury.

If you volunteer to participate, you will be asked to:

  • Complete a demographic survey on Qualtrics (3 minutes)
  • Do a phone, online or face-to-face interview about your perspectives on the causes and management of work-related shoulder disorders. (30-45 minutes).

Participants will receive a $25 CAD Amazon gift card following a 30-45 mins semi-structures interview.

To participate: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4PdNNqDE28EPGtM
Contact: tosifeso@uwo.ca for further inquires.

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3 Question Survey – Sociodemographic Questions in the Canadian Context

A project from Western University is conducting critical groundwork for a future grant application intended to develop and share a ‘core set’ of social and demographic questions for use in MSK rehabilitation research in Canada. The long-term goal of this program of research is to create a set of sociodemographic (SD) questions that are relevant to the Canadian context, to make those widely available, and to establish a mechanism for routine re-evaluation and revision of those questions as social sensibilities inevitably change with time.

As a first step, and taking no longer than 5 minutes: the research team is asking of all MSK Rehabilitation Research Network members, to append to the below survey any form(s) that you are currently or have recently used in an MSK-specific research project that has not yet been published (though could be on a preprint server). The research team does not want to see the data, only the questions being asked and the response options provided to participants. Word, PDF, or even screenshots of surveys are all accepted at this stage. We can accept these questions in either English or French. We will also invite you to provide a very brief few sentences on the purpose/context of the study from which the forms have come (e.g., age group, condition being studied, study design). We will extract the SD questions and response combinations verbatim and interpret them for constructs being collected, alongside all other such questions we extract from other researchers in Canada. The intention is to identify: a) what SD constructs are being most commonly collected by MSK researchers in Canada, b) how they are being collected, and c) similarities and differences across groups or research contexts.

The quick 3 question survey can be accessed here: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_55

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The research team will appreciate receiving responses within 2 weeks (by August 9th, 2024).

 

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Summer School Topics Survey 2025

If you are an MSK Network Trainee please complete the survey linked below to provide your input on a summer school topic of interest for 2025. The purpose of this short (2-question) survey is to engage trainees to determine what subjects they are most interested in attending a summer school on.

The survey can be accessed here: https://uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0B9dNiIWDFaZv6u

If you have interest in helping plan a summer school or have a potential location for a summer school, please reach out to the Network Coordinator at rehabnet@uwo.ca.

If you have any questions about the survey or Network summer schools, please reach out to the Network Coordinator at rehabnet@uwo.ca.