Muscle synergy analyses are used to enhance our understanding of how the central nervous system controls movement. In the new paper by Paul Kaufmann, Lorenz Zweier, Arnold Baca and Hans Kainz, the motor control of three skateboard tricks was investigated as representatives of highly complex human movements. The results showed that some, but not all, […]
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At the 29th annual congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, which will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 30th of June to the 3rd of July 2024, Willi Koller is nominated as a finalist for the ESB Student Award. Among three other students, he will hold a presentation during a special session about femoral bone growth predictions with multi-scale […]
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Dr. Hans Kainz, alongside esteemed colleagues Dr. Antoine Falisse from Stanford University (USA) and Dr. Claudio Pizzolato from Griffith University (Australia), collaborated on an insightful opinion paper exploring neuromusculoskeletal modelilng in health and disease. This paper provides a brief overview of the latest advancements in the field, while also pinpointing promising avenues for future research. […]
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The mission of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) is to understand the mechanisms by which the central nervous system controls movement. The 33rdannual meeting of the Society was held this year from April 16thto 19thin Dubrovnik, Croatia. Hans Kainz and Paul Kaufmann attended the meeting and presented their work in two […]
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Together with Dr Mike Schwartz, Dr Andrew Ries and Dr Andrew Georgiadis from the University of Minnesota (USA), Dr Hans Kainz used an innovative machine learning approach to investigate how 3D gait analysis data improves clinical decision making in children with cerebral palsy. The paper was recently published in PLOS ONE and is open access. […]
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Our department hosted the National Biomechanics Day on April 4th. The National Biomechanics Day is a worldwide celebration of biomechanics for high school students and teachers. It was initiated by Dr. Paul De Vita in 2017 and has since been celebrated in 45 nations. In Austria, Dr. Hans Kainz and his research group initiated the […]
Read More The 29th annual congress of the European Society of Biomechanics will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 30th of June to the 3rd of July 2024. Three abstracts from our research have been accepted for oral presentation. We look forward to meet new people and familar faces at the congress. PELVIS SHAPE AND BIPEDAL […]
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Three members of the Neuromechanics Research Group participated in a workshop at Stanford University in California, USA, in the beginning of March. This workshop intended for advanced users of the musculoskeletal modelling software OpenSim, provided an opportunity to collaborate with the software developers and explore new applications in research. Approximately 50 participants coming from around […]
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Excessive loads at lower limb joints can lead to pain and degenerative diseases. Altering joint loads with muscle coordination retraining might help to treat or prevent clinical symptoms in a non-invasive way. Knowing how much muscle coordination retraining can reduce joint loads and which muscles have the biggest impact on joint loads is crucial for […]
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Dr. Juliana Exel was invited to participate as a speaker in the Lecture Series organised by Prof. Matthias Kempe at the University of Groningen. In the presentation “Unlocking the betas of performance in climbing with human movement sciences”, she talked about the role of biomechanics in supporting the assessment, diagnostics, and prescription of one of the […]
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