Stretching Your Energetic Budget: How Tendon Compliance Affects the Metabolic Cost of Running

Non-uniform in vivo deformations of the human Achilles tendon during walking

(2015) Jason R. Franz et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

In vivo behavior of the human soleus muscle with increasing walking and running speeds

(2015) Adrian Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton

(2015) Steven H. Collins et al.   NATURE

A comparison of muscle energy models for simulating human walking in three dimensions

(2014) Ross H. Miller   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Tendon elastic strain energy in the human ankle plantar-flexors and its role with increased running speed

(2014) A. Lai et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The energetic benefits of tendon springs in running: is the reduction of muscle work important?

(2014) N. C. Holt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking during load carriage

(2014) Luke M Mooney et al.   Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Treadmill versus overground and barefoot versus shod comparisons of triceps surae fascicle behaviour in human walking and running

(2013) Neil J. Cronin et al.   GAIT & POSTURE

Flexing Computational Muscle: Modeling and Simulation of Musculotendon Dynamics

(2013) Matthew Millard et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

How muscle fiber lengths and velocities affect muscle force generation as humans walk and run at different speeds

(2013) E. M. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A Simple Exoskeleton That Assists Plantarflexion Can Reduce the Metabolic Cost of Human Walking

(2013) Philippe Malcolm et al.   PLoS One

Optimizing locomotion controllers using biologically-based actuators and objectives

(2012) Jack M. Wang et al.   ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS

Sensitivity of model predictions of muscle function to changes in moment arms and muscle–tendon properties: A Monte-Carlo analysis

(2012) David C. Ackland et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Muscle contributions to fore-aft and vertical body mass center accelerations over a range of running speeds

(2012) Samuel R. Hamner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

On the ascent: the soleus operating length is conserved to the ascending limb of the force-length curve across gait mechanics in humans

(2012) J. Rubenson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Muscular strategy shift in human running: dependence of running speed on hip and ankle muscle performance

(2012) T. W. Dorn et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Specialization of tendon mechanical properties results from interfascicular differences

(2012) C. T. Thorpe et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Sarcomere lengths in human extensor carpi radialis brevis measured by microendoscopy

(2012) Melinda J. Cromie et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

Human medial gastrocnemius force-velocity behavior shifts with locomotion speed and gait

(2012) D. J. Farris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluation of the minimum energy hypothesis and other potential optimality criteria for human running

(2011) R. H. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Changes in tendon stiffness and running economy in highly trained distance runners

(2010) Jared R. Fletcher et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

Muscle contributions to propulsion and support during running

(2010) Samuel R. Hamner et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Optimality principles for model-based prediction of human gait

(2010) Marko Ackermann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Stance and swing phase costs in human walking

(2010) B. R. Umberger   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

It Pays to Have a Spring in Your Step

(2009) Gregory S. Sawicki et al.   EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES REVIEWS

Optimal running speed and the evolution of hominin hunting strategies

(2009) Karen L. Steudel-Numbers et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Optimal muscle fascicle length and tendon stiffness for maximising gastrocnemius efficiency during human walking and running

(2008) G.A. Lichtwark et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY