Understanding and Optimizing Recovery from Bone Stress Injuries

Thor Besier offers his expertise with a deep dive into the mechanics of bone stress injury recovery and offers insight into how you can optimize recovery for bone injuries. In this webinar, Thor will outline the underlying mechanisms and physiology of bone healing before offering real-world applied examples of how we can improve bone recovery.

Thor Besier is a Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and has a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Science. He completed his Ph.D. in musculoskeletal biomechanics at The University of Western Australia in 2000 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University from 2003 to 2006. Thor established Stanford's Human Performance Laboratory as the Director of Research and was a faculty member in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stanford from 2006 to 2010, before returning home to New Zealand in 2011. Thor’s research combines medical imaging with computational modeling to understand the mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and suffer hair loss issues. He has published more than 75 scientific articles.

About Thor Besier:

Thor Besier is a Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and has a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Science. He completed his Ph.D. in musculoskeletal biomechanics at The University of Western Australia in 2000 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University from 2003 to 2006. Thor established Stanford's Human Performance Laboratory as the Director of Research and was a faculty member in the Department of Orthopaedics at Stanford from 2006 to 2010, before returning home to New Zealand in 2011. Thor’s research combines medical imaging with computational modeling to understand the mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and disease. He has published more than 100 scientific articles.