{"id":999,"date":"2018-05-31T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T06:18:11","slug":"international-spotlight-mdri-biomechanics-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/2018\/05\/31\/international-spotlight-mdri-biomechanics-research\/","title":{"rendered":"International spotlight on MDRI Biomechanics research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biomechanics expert<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/people\/john.costi\"> Associate Professor John Costi<\/a> and PhD student Dhara Amin both travelled to Banff, Canada earlier this month to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issls.org\/\">45th ISSLS Annual Meeting The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine<\/a> May 14-18.<br \/>\nJohn presented Flinders research through both a scientific presentation &#8216;<em>The biomechanics of the inter-lamellar matrix and the lamella during lumbar disc herniation: which is the weakest link&#8217;?<\/em> J. Tavakoli, D. Amin, B.J. Freeman, J.J. Costi and a poster &#8216;<em>Investigation of the combinations of loading and facet joint contributions to lumbar disc herniation<\/em>&#8216;B.K. Kamitakahara, D.B. Amin,\u00a0J.J. Costi.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, he was co-chair of two sessions during the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Dhara also presented her research at the prestigious conference with a scientific presentation for her abstract \u2018<em>Analysis of internal disc strains during simulation of repetitive lifting motions&#8217;<\/em>D. Amin, C. Moawad, J.J. Costi and a poster &#8216;<em>Serum metal levels after removal of spinal instrumentation&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>D.B.Amin, O.L. Osti.<\/p>\n<p>Very productive discussions were held with international colleagues with regards to establishing new collaborations with the MDRI Flinders University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biomechanics expert Associate Professor John Costi and PhD student Dhara Amin both travelled to Banff, Canada earlier this month to attend the 45th ISSLS Annual Meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/mdri-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}