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In addition to full-funding research projects, WCB-Alberta also provides sponsorship for co-funding, data access, and collection. Co-funding and letters of collaboration assist researchers seeking funding from other agencies, such as the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Data access and collection enables researchers to access claim data for research purposes. This includes the review of historical data, live data collection and surveying. All data requests must satisfy the requirements of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and undergo ethical review by the appropriate institution.

Active Projects

Title   Researcher(s) Time Period
Prognostic factors in work-related shoulder and knee injury (pdf, 10KB)   Dr. Jeremy Beach
University of Alberta
Jeremy.Beach@ualberta.ca		 2006 - 2010
Arthroscopic versus min-open repair of full- thickness tears of the rotator cuff -  a prospective randomized study (pdf, 13KB)   Dr. Ian Lo
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2005 - 2014
Further defining the role for capsular plication in shoulder instability surgery (pdf, 10KB)   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2007 - 2011
Predictive factors for successful non operative treatment of chronic full thickness rotator cuff tears (pdf, 13KB)   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2008 - 2012
A randomized clinical trial comparing three methods for anterior Cruciate ligament reconstruction: Patellar tendon, quadruple semitendinosus/gracilis grafts (pdf, 9KB)   Dr. Nicholas Mohtadi and Denise Chan
University of Calgary
dsfchan@ucalgary.ca		 2007 - 2013
The effect of hip stabilizer muscle strengthening on pain and disability for patients with non-specific low back pain:  an outcome-based randomized controlled trial   Dr. Reed Ferber
Karen Kendall
University of Calgary
kdkendal@ucalgary.ca		 2010 - 2012
Evaluation of MRI Assessment of SLAP Lesions   Dr. Ian Lo
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2011
Development of a New Clinical Test for Long Head Biceps Pathology:  The SAW Test   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2011 - 2012
Development of a Triage Decision-making Tool for the Rehabilitation of Injured Workers (Part 2)   Dr. Douglas Gross
University of Alberta
dgross@ualberta.ca		 2011 - 2012
Non-operative Treatment of Full Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears:  Two Year Follow-up   Dr. Richard Boorman
University of Calgary
aanelson@ucalgary.ca		 2011 - 2012
Efficacy of Ultrasound Guided Platelet Rich Plasma Injection for Rotator Cuff Degeneration   Dr. Marni Wesner
University of Alberta
mwesner@ualberta.ca		 2011 - 2013
Non-Invasive Diagnostic for the Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Disease and Injury:  Prevention/recovery via Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Metabolomics  

Dr. David Broadhurst, Ryan T McKay
University of Alberta
ryan.mckay@ualberta.ca

 2011 - 2013

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Additional resources

Information about research initiatives being sponsored by other Canadian workers' compensation boards may be found on the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) website.

Last updated January 13, 2012