Innovation Anthology #336:

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Chances are if you’re a runner, you’ll suffer some sort of injury.

Statistics show 80 percent of those injuries occur from the knee downward.

Dr. Reed Ferber is an assistant professor in Kinesiology and Nursing at the University of Calgary and he’s director of the Running Injury Clinic.

 

Using a special gait analysis system, Dr. Ferber is amassing the world’s largest database on how people run.

 

He’s discovered that the underlying cause of most running injuries is weakness in the hip stabilizer muscles.

And his research promises a high tech, mathematical solution to prevent injuries.

DR. REED FERBER: What we should be able to do is predict injury from all of this. So we should be able to take this data base and come up with an algorithm for every single runner, in terms of you’re more likely to develop this type of injury. Let’s say it’s shinsplints. This person is more likely to develop IT Band Syndrome and here’s how we can prevent it in the first place.

Dr. Ferber’s group has expanded the gait analysis program across western Canada and will open clinics around the world over the next few years.

Thanks today to Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

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Alberta Innovates Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates (formerly Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions)

As the newly formed Alberta Innovates corporation, we still fund top quality, internationally competitive health research and innovation activities to improve the health and wellbeing of Albertans. We provide leadership for Alberta’s health research and innovation enterprise by directing, coordinating, reviewing, funding and supporting research and innovation.

Working with our many partners  in the health system, we ensure that research achieves innovation in care, policy and practice, and that the needs of patients and clinicians influence research.

Our background

Alberta Innovates consolidation was launched November 1, 2016.

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions

Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions was established as part of the Alberta Innovates system by an Act of Legislation of the Government of Alberta. It is a agency  of the Government of Alberta. We receive a yearly allocation from the Ministry of Health and report through the ministry to the people of Alberta.

Our Mandate and Roles document reflects our role and responsibilities and outlines the government statues and regulations with which we comply.

Alberta’s Health Research and Innovation Strategy (AHRIS) sets out Alberta’s health research agenda for the coming decade to ensure our considerable investments in research align with our priority—to improve the health of Albertans.

 

 

Program Date: 2010-09-02