Four oral presentations and seminar at ESMAC 2023 conference

The purpose of ESMAC (the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children) is to stimulate and advance scientific knowledge, professional interaction and the exchange of ideas among society members relating to movement analysis in adults and children in clinical and research settings. This year’s annual meeting will take place in Athens, Greece from 18th to 23rd of September. Four abstracts of members of the Neuromechanics Research Group got accepted for oral presentation at the scientific conference and will also be published in Gait & Posture. Furthermore, Hans Kainz and his colleagues are going to hold a pre-conference seminar titled “Introduction to musculoskeletal modeling” together with Bryce Killen from KU Leuven.

Abstracts:

Femoral growth plate stresses in children with cerebral palsy compared to typically developing children (Willi Koller, Elias Wallnöfer, Jana Holder, Andreas Kranzl, Arnold Baca, Hans Kainz)

Musculoskeletal modelling informed muscle coordination re-training to reduce knee joint loads (Hans Kainz, Willi Koller, Elias Wallnöfer, Gabriel Mindler, Andreas Kranzl

Effect of simulated healthy gait pattern in children with idiopathic torsion deformities (Basilio Gonçalves, Willi Koller, Kira Schmitz, Arnold Baca, Hans Kainz

Internal lower limb rotation increases patella cartilage pressure in individuals with patellofemoral instability (Bernhard Guggenberger, Brian Horsak, Andreas Habersak, Colin Smith, Martin Svehlik, Hans Kainz)