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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 1h

Day 3 @icors2025

@borsoc.bsky.social workshop: 'Detect, Treat, Prevent' - The concept of Pre-OA 🦵🏽

Proposing a pre-OA state characterised by joint risk factors + structural/biochemical changes without established radiographic changes, + implications for early intervention to elude younger OA onset

Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 1h

Day 2 Women's Breakfast:
Invest in your professional relationships

@icors2025

Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 1d

Day 1 Workshop:
"No one has died of OA but"

Multiple connections drawn from epidemiology and lab research findings link Osteoarthritis and co-morbid disease risk (particularly CVD 🫀), suggesting OA may drive systemic inflammation.

@icors @anzors @orssociety.bsky.social
@eors

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 4d

Murray Bridge, South Australia

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 4d

Garlic, ginger, methotrexate

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 4d

Yanuarso et al. (2025):

"....more incentive into finding + researching other works to provide full comprehensive is required, before MSC therapy is recommended in the management of OA."

orthopedicreviews.openmedicalpublishing.org/article/1376...

The Effectiveness of Mesenchymal Stem Cell (MSCs) Therapy Combined with Arthroscopy as Treatment for Knee Osteoarthritis (KOA): A Systematic Review | Published in Orthopedic Reviews

By Yanuarso, Keri Lestari Dandan & 9 more. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive and chronic disease that can result in the patient’s increased pain and loss of function.

orthopedicreviews.openmedicalpublishing.org

Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 7d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person

The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 9d

Please do come check out the work over the following sessions, and let's connect! 🤝

- Wednesday 8 October: Morning Tea, Lunch & Afternoon Tea
- Thursday 9 October: Morning Tea
- Friday 10 October: Morning Tea, Lunch & Afternoon Tea
- Saturday 11 October: Morning Tea

Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 9d

A priming effect was seen when human bone-marrow stem cells were cultured on topographical substrates, enabling secreted factors to be captured, and then re-incorporated into the growth media of porcine chondrocytes to promote chondrogenesis and mediate inflammatory conditions. 🔬

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 9d

I'll be presenting a poster from my PhD research at @limsltu.bsky.social and NUS Singapore highlighting the benefits of mesenchymal stem cell cultures on topographical substrates for cartilage regeneration (chondrogenesis).

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 9d

I'm looking forward to making it across to Adelaide next week for the @ICORS - Int'l Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies World Congress of Orthopaedic Research 2025 🦴🦵

icors2025.com.au

My gratitude to the ANZORS Executive for their support with a Travel Award to attend.

ICORS2025 - ICORS 2025

icors2025.com.au

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Orthopaedic Research Society @orssociety.bsky.social · Mar 27

🚨 Abstracts due April 1 for ICORS 2025!

Join the global #musculoskeletal research community October 8-11 in Adelaide, Australia. Don’t miss your chance to contribute! How to Submit: icors2025.com.au

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · 25d

Windswept

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Sep 5

Huy Huynh - 'My Views on the Prospect of the Chinese in Australia' (1997)

- a response to Pauline Hanson.

Xin Jin Shan Chinese Library, Ballarat.

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Faculti @faculti.bsky.social · Aug 21

Siloed Care: How Australia’s Physiotherapists Are Being Failed by Poor Collaboration Training. Dr Anne Jones , @jcuofficial.bsky.social , JCU College of Healthcare Sciences , discusses: faculti.net/the-collabor...

#physiotherapy

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Aug 18

“You are here to learn to ride a bicycle, not to invent a bicycle.”

www.science.org/content/arti...

Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Aug 1

79634 words, 4 years, 1 thesis.

The book's full. 🦵🏽

Coincidentally, a boobook🦉appeared on the washing line soon after.

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Jul 1

😅 depending on the condition, sometimes this dosage is warranted for best outcomes. For example, a post-surgical rehab period with expected hurdles.

On the other hand, also important to be grateful this kind of expertise and availability is there, as unavailable in many parts of the World.

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Ken Milne MD @thesgem.bsky.social · Jun 23

Confirmation bias defined in literature.
#MedSky

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ISSCR @isscr.org · Jun 25

The global stem cell community remembers the life & contributions of James Till, who passed away on May 18 at the age of 94. Alongside the late Ernest McCulloch, Dr. Till conducted pioneering research in the 1960s that proved the existence of stem cells.

www.isscr.org/isscr-news/i...

ISSCR Remembers James Till — International Society for Stem Cell Research

The global stem cell community remembers the life and profound contributions of James Till, who passed away on May 18 at the age of 94. Alongside the late Ernest McCulloch, Dr. Till conducted pioneeri...

www.isscr.org

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Jun 25

ARA VIC-TAS Post-EULAR Meeting

Dr. Juan Aw keynote on:
- Management of erosive hand OA
- Difficult to treat RA

@austrheumatology.bsky.social
@eular.org

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Tissue Engineering, Parts A, B, & C @tissueengineering.bsky.social · Jun 20

CALL FOR PAPERS: Don’t forget to submit your papers on tissue engineering advances in New Zealand and Australia!

Submission deadline: August 30, 2025

Read more here: lnkd.in/e5NqJD9J

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · Jun 21

Commentary: Japan’s foray into regenerative medicine takes on added importance for a nation wrestling with age, stagnation and its place in the world.

Japan is helping lead the way in regenerative medicine

In pristine labs across Japan, scientists are tinkering with the architecture of regeneration.

www.japantimes.co.jp

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Christopher Chong @arthwritethis.bsky.social · Jun 20

Age-old wisdom: Seniors stay healthy, inside and out - Health - The Jakarta Post

Tai chi is just one way some elderly Jakartans maintain their physical fitness and an active social life, high above the bustling rat race and traffic snarls below.

www.thejakartapost.com

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Chuxin🦋 @irisma1123.bsky.social · Jun 10

I found that there were records of electrotherapy devices in China as early as 1875, introduced by the missionary, Daniel Jerome Macgowan.

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