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Heikki Kröger

Medical doctors and physicists get to the bottom of bones and joints

Maintaining functional capacity in old age is largely dependent on musculoskeletal health, and this is something the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital are working hard to promote. Scholars of medicine and applied physics are collaborating to find new solutions for the prevention, diagnostics and treatment of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.

  • Text Ulla Kaltiala ja Marianne Mustonen
  • Photos Raija Törrönen
Rami Korhonen
“In the future, we can develop better methods to predict the individual progression of the disease, and to plan personalised treatments,” Rami Korhonen says.