Vincenzo S. Contento

@JosefinaManieu @Geoff_A_Power Sounds awesome. I look forward to reading your publications, good luck!

@VinceContento @Geoff_A_Power Nice, congrats! Quite the thesis 👏🏻 My topic is history-dependence, mostly rFE (time course, healthy vs unhealthy, factors that modify it (EEC/CON training, stretching maybe)). Or something like that 😝

Thank you @JosefinaManieu, I’m glad your enjoying my thesis work! Of course, I couldn’t have done it without a great mentor! @Geoff_A_Power

@JosefinaManieu @Geoff_A_Power Masters thesis, but I’ll take the compliment 😊. I have a tendency to over explain, haha. What’s your PhD topic, if you don’t mind me asking?

@VinceContento @Geoff_A_Power PhD thesis? Is a really complete and well explained article, currently the closes I have found to base my PhD topic (working on smth similar too!)

(5/n) MOST IMPORTANTLY, you shouldn’t take mine, or any other persons tweets as fact. Read the papers and pay special attention to the methods. Consider the results/discussion and draw your own conclusions. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…

(1/n) This study investigated clinical outcomes in patients who developed myocarditis within 28 days of either COVID-19 vaccination or disease, in comparison to conventional myocarditis. To do this they used relative risk (RR) = IRvaccinated (or IRdisease) / IRconventional.

(4/n) overall the paper reports that patients who develop myocarditis associated with vaccination have better clinical outcomes than their COVID-19 positive counter parts.

(3/n) (ii) the RR of heart failure within 90 days was ~62% less for those vaccinated than those who tested positive for the disease [0.56 vs 1.48]. (iii) the RR of death within 90 days was ~80% less in vaccinated than disease positive [0.48 vs 2.35].

(2/n) The main results: (i) RR of readmission to hospital within 90 days was ~44% greater in those who had myocarditis associated with COVID-19 vaccine compared to those who had myocarditis associated with COVID-19 disease [0.79 vs 0.55].

@JorB_L @Millar_Lab @Dr_Burr @Geoff_A_Power @CoralMurrant @JR_Smith_PhD Congratulations Dr. Lee!

I successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday! Many thanks to my advisor @Millar_Lab and examination committee @Dr_Burr @Geoff_A_Power @CoralMurrant @JR_Smith_PhD for your time, support and insights on this work! Looking forward to continuing collaborating in the future.

Congratulations to my former advisor @Geoff_A_Power and past co-author @BrianHDalton for literally writing the book (or at least a chapter) on methods to investigate #neuromuscular control of the plantar/dorsiflexors. Looking forward to the read! elsevier.com/books/foot-and…

…Except maybe a published one! Lol

Nothing is more satisfying than perfectly formatted manuscript

A big misconception is that you need to be motivated to get rolling. You don't. Research—motivation often FOLLOWS action, not the other way around. In practice—you don't need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good:

Going from research on humans to chart reviews has been quite the change. Shout out to @queensu @KingstonHSC HSREB for being so helpful!

@neuromecHAHNics @Geoff_A_Power (2/2) Work was similar in voluntary contractions because all the voluntary conditions had the same (maximal) effort being performed through the same 40 degree ROM. It changed in the stim condition because much less force was elicited by the stim.

@neuromecHAHNics @Geoff_A_Power (1/n) Since this study took place over 3 time points (baseline, 1h, and 24h), we wanted to make sure our values of rFE and rFD were as consistent as possible. In piloting we found that having participants maximally contract through the dynamic phase best achieved this.

Cardiac muscle has the same capability for residual force enhancement as skeletal muscle. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Geoff_A_Power Thank you @Geoff_A_Power for being a great advisor, and all the members of the PowerLab who helped along the way!

I’m usually not very active on social media, but I think I’m going to take Twitter along with me on my new scientific journey #CardiovascularPerfusion #CytoSorb #RetrospectiveChartReview

🍾CONGRATULATIONS VINCENZO!👍 📢Vincenzo Contento, MSc, Successfully Defended His Thesis! 🎙️Eccentric Muscle Weakness & the History Dependence of Force 🗓️Sept 8, 2022 📌@UofG_HHNS! 🥼Prof. Geoff Power's Lab @UofGResearch! 🔗uofgpowerlab.weebly.com 🏛️#UofG #UofGCBS 🎓#MScGrad