The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics

There was "The 34th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Clinical Biomechanics" on last Friday. My friend and I took part in this as public speaker. What I presented was the influence of that clamping force of screws gives fracture healing in plate fixation for diaphysis fracture. My friend’s presentation theme was "Comparison of 2D analysis and 3D analysis on the femoral trabecula distribution".

I was nervous because there were so many people in the room that we presented those in. Almost of them were medical doctors as well as much older than we and strict. We managed to present about our study in that. Doctors of orthopedics might be not so interested in our study because there was no question that I thought important. I thought doctors were interested in practical methods of clinical tests or advice rather than simulation of bone remodeling for fracture healing or trabecula distribution. So we should consider about how to use this simulation technique with medical doctors who know about clinical test well.

There were a lot of presentations that day. They were about total hip replacement, artificial knee joint, fracture, tissue, rehabilitation, sports biomechanics and so on. They sounds very interesting but we was unable to see all of them. So, we saw presentations about only orthopedics and talked with medical doctors then we got some hot information, some advice for my study and some clinical problems of implants and operations. We should have keep in touch with medical doctors more. I thought, if I had known about those advice or problems two years ago, the direction of my study must have changed a little and my study might be more useful. I regretted that a little. I will study along the advice as possible as I can from now and tell about that to my younger friends in my laboratory.

There was lunch seminar in which one professor explained about operation of total hip joint with special machine. Some movie of tests were aired, cutting skin and scraping bone… It’s gross!!! In that, doctors were eating normally!

I’ll be busy. I have to write an article and a thesis and analyze for them. In addition, I want to snowboard!

Your preparation of Christmas is good?
In Japan, though almost Japanese are Buddhism, so many people observe Christmas with their family, girlfriend or boyfriend. So couples may be busy to plan the special day but I don’t have girlfriend. I’m free! I don’t have to plan. But I’m a little lonely. Maybe I’ll drink with friends who don’t have a girlfriend! No! I just have to get a new girlfriend by Christmas.

This photo is main stage not us. I forgot to ask someone to take pictures of us.
Next photo is a small party in my lab last week. The friend is traveling Taiwan now!