Grant applications
The Kenneth Cutbush Shoulder Clinic has completed a second-round meeting with the Wesley Research Institute as part of grant applications for shoulder research funding.
How research funding works
Clinical research of this kind is paid for by competitive grants. An application sets out the question being asked, the method, who will carry out the work and what it will cost, and it is then assessed against other applications competing for the same pool of money. Reaching a second-round meeting means an application has passed the first stage of that assessment and the funder wants the detail examined further. Independent research institutes, universities and hospital foundations all support work in this way, and a study spanning several institutions commonly draws on more than one source.
Driving the Deltoid
The project, "Driving the Deltoid", studies deltoid muscle function and neuromuscular recovery following reverse total shoulder replacement.
The reason this matters is that a reverse total shoulder replacement transfers the job of raising the arm from the rotator cuff to the deltoid. How completely the deltoid takes on that role, and how its neural control adapts after surgery, is therefore a large part of what determines the result, and it is not well understood.
Neuromuscular recovery refers to the way the nervous system learns to recruit a muscle for a task it was not previously doing on its own. Studying it means measuring both the movement itself and the electrical activity in the muscle, which is why work of this kind involves engineers and movement scientists alongside surgeons. Individual results vary.
The team
A collaborative team drawn from The University of Queensland, the University of Côte d'Azur and the clinic. Pictured are Dr Wolbert van den Hoorn, Tristan Shuker and Dr Dale Rimmington.
Related information
- Our post on research into deltoid function
- Our post on the deltoid EMG work presented in Seoul
- Our research page
- Our publications page