Advanced Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
Tentative Syllabus for 1999

 

Day

Date

Topic

Reading (Author)

Presenter

Muscle Modeling

 

 

 

W

1-Sep

Introduction & Background

 

Buchanan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W

8-Sep

Measuring Muscle Functional Capacity

Murray

Buchanan

 

 

 

Murray, Delp & Buchanan, in review

 

 

 

M

13-Sep

Imaging methods for in vivo measurements

Kawakami/Fukunaga

Chmielewski

 

 

 

Fukunaga et al. JAP 82: 345-8, 1997; Kawakami et al. JAP 85:398-404, 1998

 

 

 

W

15-Sep

Modeling Muscle Mechanics

Zahalac

Hudson

 

 

 

MSS Ch 1

 

 

 

M

20-Sep

Hill-based models

Winters

Wang

 

 

 

MSS Ch 5

 

 

 

W

22-Sep

The Muscle-tendon junction

Huijing

Barrance

 

 

 

J Biomech 32(4):329-45, 1999

 

 

 

M

27-Sep

Understanding the EMG

DeLuca

Williams

 

 

 

Basmajian "Muscles Alive" Ch 3

 

 

 

W

29-Sep

EMG Spectral Properties: Modeling

Merletti

Chmielewski

 

 

 

IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 46: 810-829, (Part I&II) 1999

 

 

 

M

4-Oct

Modeling Muscle & Tendon Mechanics

Zajac

Hudson/Wang

 

 

 

CRC Crit Reviews, 359-411, 1989

 

 

 

W

6-Oct

Modeling muscle activation dynamics

Thelen

Barrance

 

 

 

J. Biomech.27(7): 907-19, 1994

 

 

 

M

11-Oct

Muscle-Tendon Models for FES

Crago

Williams

 

 

 

Annals Biomed Eng 26: 369-80, 1998

 

 

Controlling Movement

 

 

 

W

13-Oct

Trajectory planning

Flash

Chmielewski

 

 

 

MSS Ch 17

 

 

 

M

18-Oct

The Lambda model

Latash

Hudson

 

 

 

Biol Cybernetics 67:377-84, 1992

 

 

 

W

20-Oct

American Society of Biomechanics Meeting

-

 

 

M

25-Oct

Trajectory Control--other views

Krylow/Gottlieb

Wang

 

 

 

Krylow et al. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 44:165-76, 1997; Gottlieb et al. Motor Control 2:10-12, 1998

 

 

W

27-Oct

Sensorimotor Transformations

Kuawto

Barrance

 

 

 

J Neurophysiol 81(5):2140-55, 1999

 

 

 

M

1-Nov

Relationship between Spinal Circuits and Biomechanics

Loeb

Williams

 

 

 

Journal Motor Behavior, 1989

 

 

Modeling Movement

 

 

 

W

3-Nov

Architecture of Leg Muscles

Alexander

Chmielewski

 

 

 

MSS Ch 36

 

 

 

M

8-Nov

Break

-

 

 

W

10-Nov

Properties of Muscles in Running

MacMahon

Hudson

 

 

 

MSS Ch 37

 

 

 

M

15-Nov

Break

-

 

 

W

17-Nov

Break

-

 

 

M

22-Nov

The role of bi-articular muscles

Van Ingen Shenau

Wang

 

 

 

J Biomech 29(4):513-23, 1996

 

 

 

W

24-Nov

Modeling Muscle Activity

Pandy

Barrance

 

 

 

J Biomech 24(1):1-10, 1991

 

 

 

M

29-Nov

Correcting Movement: Modeling Tendon Transfers

Delp

Williams

 

 

 

J Orthop Research 14: 144-51, 1996

 

 

Presentations

 

 

 

 

W

1-Dec

Student Presentations

-

TC / DH

 

M

6-Dec

Student Presentations

-

LW / PB

 

W

8-Dec

Student Presentations

-

GW