Elias, Bernhard and Willi have been accepted to participate in the prestigious OpenSim+ Advanced Workshop at Stanford University

Three members of the Neuromechanics Research Group are going to participate in a workshop at Stanford University in California, USA, scheduled for this March.. This workshop is intended for advanced users of the musculoskeletal modelling software OpenSim, providing an opportunity to collaborate with the software developers and explore new applications in research. Structured as a hands-on workshop, participants will engage with their own data and research projects, receiving support from the Stanford staff to navigate technical challenges.

Bernhard, Elias and Willi will work on a project were “OpenSim Moco” will be used to determine individualized cost functions for participants during walking. This approach aims to align predicted kinematics with experimentally measured kinematics. The resulting individual cost functions will play a crucial role in predicting the outcomes of surgical interventions targeting bony abnormalities, such as femoral de-rotation osteotomy. The availability of ample longitudinal data at our department will facilitate the validation of this simulation approach. Once validated, the modeling workflow has the potential to identify the most promising surgical intervention tailored to each specific patient, thereby advancing clinical care for individuals with bony deformities. Elias and Willi were granted a travel grant of the PhaNuSpo Doctoral School to attend the workshop.