Grand Rounds Seminar

Mechanical loading drives tissue maintenance, injury, and recovery. While skilled clinicians leverage mechanical loads to help patients reach their goals, our rehabilitation community needs more rigorous evidence and techniques to improve how we use mechanical loading as medicine. My talk introduces concepts around using wearable sensors, motion capture, and computational simulations to link physical therapy exercises with tissue-level loading.

About Josh Baxter, PhD: Dr. Baxter is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from Penn State University and completed his post-doctoral training at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. His research focuses on improving physical rehabilitation strategies to promote tissue healing and growth following injury and surgery. He uses preclinical models and patient cohort studies to link tissue loading with structural and functional outcomes. His group is developing strategies to monitor patient activity and loading using low-burden sensor and remote questionnaire approaches with the goal of transforming musculoskeletal clinical research.