Great to see the result of this huge effort to better understand the course of low-back pain based on opinions from a large group of experts:
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Thanks to Jacek Cholewicki for leading this.
😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Zhang et al. show that landing with foot abduction and initial lateral heel contact realigns force vectors, reducing knee joint loading. It promotes a shift from single-joint control to a multi-joint kinetic-chain synergy.
👀https://buff.ly/k7pXizM
And another new preprint: Aging impairs control of center of mass during repeated visual perturbations in walking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
With @yaqili0130.bsky.social @jvandieen.bsky.social and Eugenie Lambrecht
As always: feedback welcome!
Jaap van Dieen
Journal of Biomechanics
Sjoerd Bruijn
My university is offering scholarships for PhD students to visit Nantes (France) for 3 to 6 months. If you are interested in joining my lab to work on the neural control of the hand during artistic activities and translating these insights into robotic control please do not hesitate to get in touch!
I'll be teaching in a 2-day course at #GhentUniversity:
From #EMG signals to #musclesynergies: Theory, methodology, and R workflows
Open to PhD candidates, researchers, professionals. With @musclesynergies.bsky.social hands-on!
7-8 Sept 2026
Free, limited seats
event.ugent.be/registration...
We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.
New grant, new openings coming up… www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...
There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well. #biomech_sky
Prof. Pieter Medendorp and colleagues have received a grant of nearly 1 million euros to investigate sensory disorders resulting from disease, accidents or ageing. The grant is part of the Open Techno...
