Coimbatore: The spine research team of city-based Ganga Hospital has won the Outstanding Paper Award of the North American Spine Society (Nass) for the third consecutive year, setting a record for being the first institution to achieve the feat.
The team won the award for identifying that pain generating inflammatory molecules were present in back pain patients, whose end plates were inflamed. Patients with severe back pain may also have bacteria in the end plate, which also probably needs to be addressed while treating them.
The paper, titled ‘Why do modic changes result in poor clinical outcomes? Novel insights from Proteomic analysis of lumbar discs with modic changes’, will be published in the Spine Journal. “Many patients have low back pain. While 85% become alright on their own, 10% require medical therapy and 5% need surgery. Among this group itself, there are patients who don’t do as well as others even after therapy or surgery,” said Dr S Rajasekaran, chairman o
5 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. A U.S. Army-funded researcher who developed a mathematical theory for complex systems such as networks, power grids and the human brain, received a prestigious scientific award.
A new approach for solving dynamic problems will allow advancements, predictability and system protection in a wide range of fields, including network security, fluid dynamics, soft robotics and energy-efficient design, researchers said.
Igor Mezić, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Mathematics at University of California Santa Barbara, earned the J. D. Crawford Prize.
The prize is awarded every two years by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Dynamical Systems. It recognizes contributions from a paper addressing fundamental issues in the dynamical-systems field.