Tag: Biomechanics

A scoping review of 93 studies finds that only 16.1 percent of research primarily focuses on older walking aid users, ...

Softer Is Not Always Easier: Cushion Resilience Shapes the Effort of Standing Up

A laboratory study of fifteen young adults found that high-resilience, firmer polyurethane cushions reduced peak hip and knee extensor moments ...

Big Eyes, Fast Escapes: Stalk-Eyed Flies Keep Their Edge

A new study finds that male stalk-eyed flies, despite having about 41 percent greater eyespan than females, show escape performance ...

Asymmetrical Backpack Loads Shift Balance in Healthy Young Adults

A repeated-measures force-plate study of 24 healthy young adults found that unilateral backpack loads shifted the center of pressure toward ...

Walking a little faster changes many muscles at once, but not the forces beneath your feet

A new integrated gait-analysis framework found that a modest speed increase produced widespread multi-muscle electromyography changes in healthy young adults ...

$Plate-nail fixation shows lowest stress in simulated tibial plateau fractures$

Plate-nail fixation shows lowest stress in simulated tibial plateau fractures

A finite element study of simulated tibial plateau fractures found that a plate-nail construct showed the lowest displacement and peak ...

Genetic Algorithm Sharpens Video Segmentation to Flag Risky Sports Movements

A genetically optimized U-Net framework segments athletes' bodies in video with high accuracy and flags visually abnormal knee, ankle, and ...

Research report: Wearable sensor-guided hierarchical reinforcement learning for adaptive motor skill correction and injury-risk assessment in physical education

Wearable sensor-guided hierarchical reinforcement learning for adaptive motor skill correction and injury-risk assessment in physical education

A new open-access study reports that a Fossa Optimizer-tuned Option-Critic hierarchical reinforcement learning model, trained on 7,000 wearable sensor records, ...

Butterfly-Inspired AI Sharpens Relay Baton Handover Analysis in Speed Skating

A study in Discover Artificial Intelligence reports that a BOA-CNN-LSTM-enhanced SIMI-Motion system cut relay handover feature extraction errors from 13.2 ...

New Equations Estimate the Mechanical Work of CrossFit-Style Workouts

A new compendium provides standardized equations for estimating the mechanical work of common high-intensity functional training exercises, while cautioning that ...

Bike-fitting formulas lack consistent evidence, systematic review finds

A systematic review of 13 studies finds that widely used bike-fitting formulas show inconsistent results and should be paired with ...

Hidden Impact Forces at the Turning Point Weaken Bone Surfaces Cut by Surgical Saws

A laboratory study of bovine cortical bone shows that impact forces at a saw blade's turning point introduce microcracks that ...

Force-Plate AI Flags Abnormal Walking Patterns in a Fraction of a Second

A compact hybrid machine-learning model called GaitScreen uses ground reaction force recordings to flag pathological gait trials for clinical review ...

Why Medical Membranes Must Match More Than Just Tissue Stiffness

A new review argues that designing polymeric membranes for medical devices requires matching anisotropy, fatigue, viscoelasticity and degradation to living ...

New MRI-to-Model Pipeline Builds Personalized Brain Simulations from Rugby Player Scans

A New Zealand research team has developed a reproducible pipeline that converts MRI scans of adolescent rugby players into a ...

Machine learning maps two decades of knee osteoarthritis biomechanics research

A bibliometric and machine-learning analysis of 3,110 publications shows knee osteoarthritis biomechanics research shifting from gait analysis toward mechanobiology, regenerative ...

Rapidly Calibratable Hip Capsule Model Quantifies Capsular Restraint After Hip Replacement

A nonlinear spring-based hip capsule model calibrated from cadaveric torque–rotation data in under an hour per specimen shows that coordinated ...

Phase-aware pose modeling sharpens throw-distance prediction from broadcast video

A new study of 500 elite throwing clips shows that modeling the four biomechanical phases of a throw reduces prediction ...

Natural coumarins from Qinpi rebalance bone cells to fight osteoporosis in mice

Eculin and esculetin, coumarins from the traditional medicine Qinpi, simultaneously stimulate bone-forming osteoblasts and suppress bone-resorbing osteoclasts in mice, offering ...

Personalized Foot Models Improve Walking Simulation Accuracy