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Dr Joanne Stocks
Joanne is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Sports Medicine at the University of Nottingham.
As a member of the NIHR Nottingham BRC Musculoskeletal, Surgery, Inflammation and Recovery theme and Associate member of the Centre for Sport, Exercise and Osteoarthritis Research Versus Arthritis, she has a research interest in the area of healthy ageing, focusing on the role of nutrition in frailty, osteoarthritis and pain.
Joanne is working on a Versus Arthritis-funded study investigating Biomarkers and Joint Pain in Military Osteoarthritis (Bio-Mil-OA), and whilst undertaking an MRes in Bioinformatics is also investigating the molecular signature of arthrofibrosis in this cohort.
Joanne is also leading the development of a mobile phone app ‘HealthScout’ and data collection platform to collect Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) in Nottingham University Hospital’s Musculoskeletal clinics. She is PI on a study funded to look at gut microbiome diversity in athletes as well as Co-I of ‘Running Through‘ a study of recreational runners, their injuries, performance and Covid-19. and was co-moderator of the community participation working group creating the Research Data Alliance’s Covid-19 Recommendations and Guidelines.
In addition, Joanne is working on a number of projects as a member of Pain Centre Versus Arthritis. These include as co-investigator of ReStARt (Reducing STiffness After knee ReplacemenT), a study to optimise physiotherapy for arthrofibrosis, and a collaboration with the OA Trial Bank to identify placebo responders and predictors of response to osteoarthritis treatment using individual patient data.
Joanne is a facilitator for Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) activities and is the module convenor for the BMedSci Patient and Public Involvement in Research module.
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Running Through Study
Investigating the impact of COVID-19 Infection on Recreational Runners: Risks, Recovery and Complications
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Gut Microbiome Diversity
Investigating gut microbiome diversity considering exercise training, diet, age and ethnicity.
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Community Knee Pain
Using community-based participants we aim to determine the natural history of knee pain and knee osteoarthritis.
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Musculoskeletal Health and Wellbeing
Measuring pain, frailty and disability in an ageing UK population.
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OA Trial Bank
Analysis using Individual Patient Data (IPD) from existing studies, of treatment effects on OA patients.
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Topical Treatments for OA Pain
Studies investigating topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis and neuropathic pain.
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Nutrition, Ageing & Osteoarthitis
Researching dietary interventions effect on healthy ageing by modifying gut microbiome
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Exercise Treatment for Osteoarthritis
Meta-analysis of the relative efficacy of different types of exercise in the treatment of osteoarthritis