Abstract Archive

Residual force depression (rFD) and residual force enhancement (rFE) are intrinsic contractile properties of skeletal muscle. To date, there have been no investigations of rFD and rFE in human fibres. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine whether rFD and rFE occur at the single muscle fib...

Recently empirical mode decomposition (EMD) has been proposed to denoise the surface electromyography (EMG) signals. The EMD decomposes the signal in intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). The selection of IMFs that contain noise is usually selected based on noise thresholds. However, threshold amplitude ...

This study evaluated four different forms of neuro-musculoskeletal modelling estimating musculotendon forces during gait in children with cerebral palsy and typically developing (TD) children. A scaled-generic musculoskeletal model for each child was used, estimating musculotendon forces by, i.e. I)...

Instrumented mouthguards are used to record in-vivo head kinematics in sport. The validation of the CSx mouthguard’s capacity to measure linear acceleration was assessed using impact testing versus a reference single-axis accelerometer. The CSx mouthguard’s linear acceleration demonstrated favou...

Socioeconomic status has been shown to impact health and health care accessibility in people with lower limb loss [1]. We aim to evaluate specifically how physical activity behaviour and capacity are influenced by socioeconomic status in this population. In the 23 participants, we found that individ...

When evaluation cognition, there is a certain complexity surrounding electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings, which would greatly benefit from being supplemented by secondary recordings, such as those from a force platform. Currently, there is also a lack of evidence supporting the need to implemen...

Exercise prescribed to treat osteoarthritis significantly improve grip strength, but it is unclear how they affect thumb specific forces. In this study, six weeks of hand exercise improved thumb force application in osteoarthritic (OA) and older healthy participants but not for the younger healthy p...

In this pilot study, five recreationally trained men performed 5-second isometric contractions in four different deadlifting positions to determine the optimal position for maximal lower-body muscle activation. A graded response was found, with the start position eliciting the greatest muscular acti...

We measured self-reported low back pain (LBP), thorax-pelvis (TP) relative angles and lumbar-pelvis (LP) relative angles as people with a transtibial amputation (TTA) walked with leg length discrepancies (LLDs) of ±20 mm. TP and LP angles were similarly affected by LLDs in the frontal and transvers...

The effect of diabetes on the ability of older adults to respond to external perturbations is not well documented. The purpose of this study was to determine if stepping threshold (ST) could be quantified in a clinical setting in older adults with diabetes and if it provided unique information regar...

In order to analyse the severity of sports impacts, time-frequency analysis of tibial acceleration can be performed with wavelet transform. However, a prerequisite to conduct such analysis is the selection of the mother wavelet. This study compared a set of 65 different wavelets on 2,240 tibial acce...