Bernhard Guggenberger, a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Hans Kainz (University of Vienna) and Dr. Martin Svehlik (Medical University of Graz), has published the first full paper from his PhD research. This collaborative study, involving researchers from three Austrian institutions and one in the USA, reveals that individuals with patellofemoral instability adapt their […]

We are pleased to announce that our second paper on muscle synergy has recently been published! In this paper, Paul Kaufmann, Willi Koller, Elias Wallnöfer, Basilio Goncalves, Arnold Baca and Hans Kainz focused on the question of how motor control changes during a learning process. Briefly, participants walked on the ground, over a beam and […]

We are happy to share our latest research findings on Opencap, a smartphone- and web-based markerless motion capture system.This study delves into the intersession repeatability of OpenCap and the effects of clothing on gait kinematics. While there has been quite a lot of research on concurrent validity of 3D markerless systems, research on reliability for […]

As a result of winning the ESMAC Best Paper Award 2023, Willi Koller and his co-authors were asked to submit a full paper on this study which has just been published open access in Gait & Posture. In this study, we evaluated the stresses within the distal growth plate in participants with cerebral palsy (CP) […]

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, […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

Upper body strength is an important capacity for climbers and one aspect associated with performance is the lock-off ability, which stands for the pulling movements a climber perform with the upper limbs during ascent. Lock-offs are performed across a range of upper-body angles, thus climbers may experience varying degrees of joint loading. In this recently published study, Dr. Exel […]

Femoral deformities, e.g. increased or decreased femoral anteversion and neck-shaft angle, can lead to pathological gait patterns, altered joint loads, and degenerative joint diseases. The mechanism how femoral geometry influences muscle forces and joint load during walking is still not fully understood. In collaboration with Dr. Mindler and Dr. Kranzl from the Orthopedic Hospital Speising, […]