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Research Overview
The
fundamental objective of our research group is to improve the understanding
of muscle coordination in normal and pathological movement through coupled
experimental and simulation studies. We will develop a cause-and-effect
framework that relates muscle impairments to gait deviations and ultimately
we will form a scientific rationale for therapeutic interventions.
Current
experiments involve three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic analysis and EMG recording
during treadmill and overground gait. State-of-the-art modeling and
optimization techniques are used to develop simulations based on experimental
data. Ongoing research projects are related to:
1) Muscle
deficits and subject-specific interventions for post-stroke hemiparetic gait
2)
Cartilage contact and compressive forces in progressive knee osteoarthritis
3)
Simulation-based analysis of muscle coordination in healthy and pathological
gait (simtk.org)
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