Last week MSc student Callum Bühler presented his latest research at the Technical Group on Computer Simulation (TGCS) symposium of the International Society of Biomechanics. His talk entitled ‘Quantifying muscle forces and joint loading during hip exercises performed with and without an elastic resistance band’ can be watched online with the following link: www.youtube.com/watch. Co-authors: Willi […]
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On the 14.07.2021 Ass-Prof Dr Hans Kainz gave a keynote lecture for participants of the MedTec Summer Academy. His talk entitled ‘Computational simulations to improve clinical decision-making’ was received very well and led to fruitful discussion with the students. Amongst others, the work presented by Dr Kainz addressed the use of neuro-musculoskeletal models, multi-scale simulations […]
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”Torsion Tool: An automated tool for personalising femoral and tibial geometries in OpenSim musculoskeletal models” In cooperation with researcher from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands), KU Leuven (Belgium) and Griffith University (Australia), Dr. Kainz developed a tool to personalize bony geometries in musculoskeletal models. The paper is freely available with the following link https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110589
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Last year Ass-Prof Hans Kainz received the Clinical Biomechanics Award from the European Society of Biomechanics. The paper related to the award is now published and freely available with the following link https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2021.105405 In this paper, Dr Kainz and colleagues used a multi-scale mechanobiological modelling approach to investigate reasons for typical and pathological femoral growth […]
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How much modeling details are needed for musculoskeletal simulations in children with cerebral palsy? Dr Kainz in collaboration with colleagues from KU Leuven (Belgium) compared generic-scaled with highly subject-specific models and showed how including/excluding personalized musculoskeletal geometry and motor control affect simulation results. The paper is freely available with the following link ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2021.105402
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Three abstracts from the Neuromechanics Research Group got accepted for presentations at the International Society of Biomechanics Conference. Two papers, one from PhD student Willi Koller and one from Ass-Prof Hans Kainz, are related to musculoskeletal modelling in children with cerebral palsy, whereas the paper from BSc student Lorenz Zweier focusses on motor control during […]
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“3D free-hand ultrasound to register anatomical landmarks at the pelvis and localize the hip joint center in lean and obese individuals“ FH-Prof Dr Brian Horsak and his team at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in collaboration with Ass-Prof Dr Hans Kainz showed how reliable you can estimate anatomical landmarks with 3D ultrasound in […]
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Willi Koller has been awarded an Internation Society of Biomechanics Congress Travel Grant.This year the Congress Travel Grant will cover the cost of registration to the congress in lieu of travel costs due to the virtual congress format for 2021.
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In collaboration with Prof Michael Schwartz from the University o Minnesota (MN, USA), Ass-Prof Hans Kainz showed how to compute muscle-tendon length in a consistent, easy and fast way. This work might be helpful for clinical gait laboratories with little musculoskeletal modelling experience. The paper is freely available with the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.04.039
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Machine learning to improve clinical decision-making in children with cerebral palsy. In cooperation with Michael H Schwartz and Andrew Georgiadis from the University of Minnesota (USA), Dr Kainz investigated how you can use machine learning to estimate causal treatment effects in children with cerebral palsy. Pre-print is online!
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