Another part of Maximilian Aurbachs work on shoulder modeling has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biomechanics. In this paper torus wrapping is introduced in shoulder muscle kinematics and its biomechanical effect is evaluated. More info can be found here. 

Obviously also congresses are affected by the current situation. So unfortunately there will be no Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports this year. However Simon Auers work on footballers under stress has been accepted and the peer reviewed extended abstract is now available in the official proceedings. It can be found here. 

Enrico de Pieri from ETH Zürich has successfully published his research on hip contact force pathes in total hip replacement in HIP International. Congratulations for the great work! The work is a collaboration between ETH Zuerich, Schulthess Clinics Zurich and our lab. Some of the computations are based on previous work by Tim Weber.

The titel of the work: Contact force path in total hip arthroplasty: effect of cup medialisation in a whole body simulation.  

Here you can find an article on one of our current projects. 

Last thursday Simon Gross successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the influence of fatigue on musculoskeletal loading. In his work he investigated fatigue of single muscles as well as muscle groups and implemented an novel fatigue algorithm which can be used for musculoskeletal analyses. 

Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations!

Some details on Simon Auers Project on the influence of mental stress on muscle loading in football players have been pulished on the OTH page (in german)

We had a number of contributions to the 2019 European Society of Biomechanics Meeting in Vienna:

Simon Auer presented his preliminary study on the influence of mental stress on muscle forces in football players and could show that stress in fact increases forces and might therefore play an important role in the develpment of injuries. 

Maximilian Aurbach showed his study on how different modelling parameters influence shoulder joint reaction forces. He proposed that the use of Hill-type muscle models might play the most important role in proper force prediction of inverse dynamic models.

Franz Süß work was present by Sebastian Dendorfer. Again a stress topic, this study could show how cognitive stress increases spinal forces even under very controlled motion.

Simone Kubowitsch studied the influence of cognitive stress on biomechanical symmetry in spinal muscles and could show significant differences in muscle recruitement under stress.

Maximilian Melzners development and validation of a novel musculoskelettal hand model was presented by our partners on University Ulm. The new model has quite some potential to adress biomechanical questions on the hand. 

All studies were recieved quite well and it will be exciting to see these projects go on!

Contact us for details.

Thanks to the organizers for the great conference. 

In cooperation with our partners at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Regensburg University Medical Centre we got a paper accepted in Scientific Reports. The main author is Florian Völlner, he reports about in vívo measurement for ligament stiffness which is an important parameter in knee endoprosthesis surgeries.

The full reference:

Völlner, Florian; Weber, Tim; Weber, Markus; Renkawitz, Tobias; Dendorfer, Sebastian; Grifka, Joachim; Craiovan, Benjamin (2019): A simple method for determining ligament stiffness during total knee arthroplasty in vivo. In: Scientific Reports 9 (1), S. 5261. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41732-x.

We will present parts of our work this summer at the European Society of Biomechanics Congress in Vienna, where we will have 5 podium presentations from our lab and at CMBBE in New York with presentation and poster. More details will follow.