Predicting gait adaptations due to ankle plantarflexor muscle weakness and contracture using physics-based musculoskeletal simulations

Predictive neuromechanical simulations indicate why walking performance declines with ageing

(2018) Seungmoon Song et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

OpenSim: Simulating musculoskeletal dynamics and neuromuscular control to study human and animal movement

(2018) Ajay Seth et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Simulation-Based Design for Wearable Robotic Systems: An Optimization Framework for Enhancing a Standing Long Jump

(2016) Carmichael F. Ong et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Full-Body Musculoskeletal Model for Muscle-Driven Simulation of Human Gait

(2016) Apoorva Rajagopal et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Changes in sarcomere lengths of the human vastus lateralis muscle with knee flexion measured using in vivo microendoscopy

(2016) Xuefeng Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Neuro-musculoskeletal simulation of instrumented contracture and spasticity assessment in children with cerebral palsy

(2016) Marjolein Margaretha van der Krogt et al.   Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Heterogeneity of muscle sizes in the lower limbs of children with cerebral palsy

(2016) Geoffrey G. Handsfield et al.   MUSCLE & NERVE

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

(2016) Thomas K. Uchida et al.   PLoS One

Robotic lower limb prosthesis design through simultaneous computer optimizations of human and prosthesis costs

(2016) Matthew L. Handford et al.   Scientific Reports

Humans Can Continuously Optimize Energetic Cost during Walking

(2015) Jessica C. Selinger et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A neural circuitry that emphasizes spinal feedback generates diverse behaviours of human locomotion

(2015) Seungmoon Song et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

Predictive Simulation Generates Human Adaptations during Loaded and Inclined Walking

(2015) Tim W. Dorn et al.   PLoS One

Changes in tibiofemoral forces due to variations in muscle activity during walking

(2014) Matthew S. DeMers et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH

High resolution muscle measurements provide insights into equinus contractures in patients with cerebral palsy

(2014) Margie A. Mathewson et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH

The biomechanical mechanism of how strength and power training improves walking speed in old adults remains unknown

(2013) C.M.I. Beijersbergen et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Lower limb muscle volumes in bilateral spastic cerebral palsy

(2013) Jonathan J. Noble et al.   BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT

Flexing Computational Muscle: Modeling and Simulation of Musculotendon Dynamics

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

Relationships of 35 lower limb muscles to height and body mass quantified using MRI

(2013) Geoffrey G. Handsfield et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

How much muscle strength is required to walk in a crouch gait?

(2012) Katherine M. Steele et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Long-Term Results After Gastrocnemius-Soleus Intramuscular Aponeurotic Recession as a Part of Multilevel Surgery in Spastic Diplegic Cerebral Palsy

(2012) Thomas Dreher et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME

Control of position and movement is simplified by combined muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ feedback

(2012) Dinant A. Kistemaker et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Medial gastrocnemius muscle volume and fascicle length in children aged 2 to 5 years with cerebral palsy

(2011) LEE BARBER et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

Passive muscle mechanical properties of the medial gastrocnemius in young adults with spastic cerebral palsy

(2011) Lee Barber et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Hamstring contractures in children with spastic cerebral palsy result from a stiffer extracellular matrix and increasedin vivosarcomere length

(2011) Lucas R. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

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

MUSCLE GROWTH IN NORMAL AND SPASTIC MICE

(2010) Israel Ziv et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY

A Muscle-Reflex Model That Encodes Principles of Legged Mechanics Produces Human Walking Dynamics and Muscle Activities

(2010) Hartmut Geyer et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING

Muscle contributions to support and progression during single-limb stance in crouch gait

(2010) Katherine M. Steele et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Optimality principles for model-based prediction of human gait

(2010) Marko Ackermann et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

A Model of the Lower Limb for Analysis of Human Movement

(2009) Edith M. Arnold et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Changes in Passive Mechanical Properties of the Gastrocnemius Muscle at the Muscle Fascicle and Joint Levels in Stroke Survivors

(2009) Fan Gao et al.   ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION

Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 1: diagnosis, and pharmacological and psychosocial management

(2009) Katharine Bushby et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Diagnosis and management of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, part 2: implementation of multidisciplinary care

(2009) Katharine Bushby et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Are Current Measurements of Lower Extremity Muscle Architecture Accurate?

(2008) Samuel R. Ward et al.   CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH

The effect of walking speed on the gait of typically developing children

(2008) Michael H. Schwartz et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Muscle contributions to support and progression over a range of walking speeds

(2008) May Q. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

The contribution of passive-elastic mechanisms to lower extremity joint kinetics during human walking

(2007) Ben Whittington et al.   GAIT & POSTURE