Purpose: Loss of digital leverage can severely disrupt inverted pendulum mechanics and alter how mechanical work is distributed during walking. The biomechanical efficacy of prosthetic footwear in individuals with bilateral toe amputation remains poo...
Purpose: To compare load to failure and fracture morphology between conventional and robotic-assisted medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) and assess their association with tibial cortical index. Methods: Sixteen cadaveric specimens underw...
Background/Objectives: Upper-limb loss represents a critical clinical and socioeconomic challenge globally. While myoelectric devices offer multi-articulated grasping, their high cost restricts access in low-resource settings. This work presents the...
Background/Objectives: Ankle rehabilitation robotics has garnered a lot of interest because of its ability to improve therapeutic outcomes and enable quantitative patient monitoring. The ankle has a complex biomechanical system, so the design needs t...
Background/Objectives: Wheelchair fencing requires effective trunk coordination because athletes cannot use the lower limbs for propulsion. This exploratory study investigated whether coach-guided scapular-control instruction was associated with diff...
Background: The jump shot is a critical technical element in modern handball, requiring the complex integration of speed, power, and precision. As the game evolves toward higher intensities, traditional coaching models require validation against obje...
Background: Asymmetrical gait refers to an unequal weight-bearing and movement pattern between the two sides of the lower limbs, commonly seen in patients with stroke or cerebral palsy. There is little research exploring how to identify asymmetrical...
Background/Objectives: Performance in track cycling depends on efficiently generating and applying force, with kinetic variables like force, torque, and power being critical. Although force-related qualities are more trainable for sprint power, resea...
Background/Objectives: Musculoskeletal disorders of the lower back remain one of the leading causes of work-related health problems in occupations involving manual material handling. Passive industrial exoskeletons have gained increasing attention as...
Background/Objective: Gait symmetry in children is increasingly understood as a development-dependent continuum rather than a fixed endpoint. This narrative review extends that framework into a multidomain model of gait divergence in cerebral palsy (...
Background: The countermovement jump (CMJ) and the squat jump (SJ) are two common techniques for maximum-height jumping. The CMJ typically produces a greater jump height than the SJ; however, the mechanisms responsible for this difference in performa...
Background/Objectives: Mechanical shocks generated by the recoil of hand-held power screwdrivers are a significant biomechanical stressor for the operator’s hand–arm complex. Currently, vibration exposure is measured at the tool-handle le...
Background/Objectives: This study evaluated whether walking speed and backward-directed resistive force interact to systematically alter knee joint kinematics and activity of knee flexor and extensor muscles in healthy adults. Methods: Fourteen activ...
Background/Objectives: Change-of-direction (COD) movements represent a fundamental component of performance in multidirectional sports and constitute one of the primary mechanisms of knee injury. The biomechanical assessment of such movements has tra...
Background/Objectives: Human feeding behavior involves the use of various tools. However, the kinematic differences between commonly used utensils such as spoons and chopsticks remain insufficiently understood. The current study aimed to quantitative...
Background/Objectives: Maintaining a stationary manual wheelchair wheelie is a highly demanding dynamic postural control task that can be biomechanically modeled as an inverted pendulum. Although skilled wheelchair users employ a Proactive Balance St...
Objectives: This exploratory cross-sectional study examined the associations between rhythmic gymnastics training history and sagittal and frontal spinal alignment. Methods: Twenty-eight female volunteers were divided into a rhythmic gymnastics group...
Background/Objectives: Defecatory straining requires coordinated abdominal-wall and lumbopelvic muscle activity to generate propulsive pressure. This study investigated whether sitting posture alters ultrasound-derived transversus abdominis (TrA) con...
Background: Considerable variation exists in the proximal and distal fixture designs used in biomechanical testing of diaphyseal femoral implants. In most of them a load is applied to the femoral head, but muscle forces are rarely represented, so ben...
Background/Objectives: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a prevalent neuropathy often associated with repetitive wrist movements, sustained wrist postures, and external compression. Although cycling offers numerous health benefits, prolonged handlebar...
Objective: This study investigated the effects of hopping speed and distance on ankle joint moments, power, and muscle activation during repeated lateral hopping tasks. Methods: Twelve trained male athletes involved in team sports performed repeated...
Background: Running-related injuries are a common issue among recreational runners and may affect training continuity and long-term participation. However, injury-associated factors remain unclear due to methodological heterogeneity and reliance on s...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated the effect of sprint intensity on spatiotemporal variables and joint kinematics during the maximal-velocity phase at each intensity level in experienced sprinters. Methods: Twenty experienced master spri...
Background/Objectives: The sit-to-stand task is widely used to assess functional performance after stroke; however, how upper-limb involvement is addressed methodologically during this transition remains unclear. This study aimed to map how upper-lim...
Background/Objectives: Lower-limb impairment can alter ankle-joint motion and reduce functional mobility during demanding locomotor tasks such as stair ascent and descent. This study presents the development and preliminary proof-of-concept evaluatio...
Background/Objectives: Decreases in hamstring isometric strength have been observed post-competition, but research has currently focused only on soccer players. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to observe if acute reductions in isometr...
Background: Glenoid loosening is the primary cause of failure in anatomic Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (aTSA). Current ASTM standards evaluate loosening via standard orthogonal vectors using non-continuous monitoring, which offer limited insight into...
Background/Objectives: Surgical repair of the rotator cuff tendons can lead to unsatisfactory results and the requirement for further surgical treatment. Development of repair techniques is limited by a lack of appropriate functional pre-clinical tes...
Background: Injuries to the knee joint usually involve ligament or tendon structures. Most of these injuries are traumatic in origin. To better understand the structures and the associated failure mechanisms, a specific understanding of the biomechan...
Background/Objectives: Fracture of ceramic femoral heads in total hip arthroplasty is a rare but catastrophic complication requiring urgent revision surgery. Most finite element studies are limited to static loading and do not capture dynamic behavio...
Background: Team sports often involve high-intensity unilateral actions that can lead to neuromuscular asymmetries, increasing injury risk and reducing performance, particularly in young female athletes. Methods: This study quantified and compared in...
Background/Objectives: The morphology of the glenoid cavity is increasingly recognized as a key factor influencing joint mechanics and clinical outcomes, particularly in the context of shoulder instability. However, the specific effects of glenoid sh...
Background/Objectives: Hamstring tendon (HT) autografts are commonly used for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), traditionally combining semitendinosus and gracilis (ST + GR) tendons to achieve adequate graft length and diameter. More...
Background/Objectives: Trabecular bone exhibits brittle behaviour governed by microscale deformation and damage, yet quantifying crack progression is difficult because classical fracture-mechanics approaches do not apply to architecturally discontinu...
Background/Objectives: Ankle dorsiflexion plays a fundamental role in gait stability, impact absorption, and the stance-to-swing transition, and its impairment is a major limitation in transtibial prostheses. This study proposes and evaluates a light...
Background/Objectives: The Dynamic Strength Index (DSI) has been proposed as an indicator of the ability to dynamically express maximum available strength; however, its practical significance remains unclear. This study examined the associations of t...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated kinetic performance, leg stiffness and gastrocnemius muscle (GM) activity during shod and barefoot two-legged hopping in female court athletes, while also assessing potential sport specialization-by-foot...
Background/Objectives: Image-based finite element analysis (FEA) is increasingly used in dental biomechanics; however, its reliability is often limited by insufficient experimental benchmarking and a lack of standardized workflows. This study aimed t...
Background/Objectives: Accurate and accessible assessment of upper-limb motion is essential for rehabilitation research, ergonomic evaluation, human–machine interaction, and limb exercise. This work presents a comparative evaluation of upper-li...
Background: Walking a dog on-leash is a common activity for a large portion of our society. Many dogs consistently pull on the leash, which transmits potentially dangerous forces to the human body. The purpose of this in silico study was to determine...
Objective: To examine lower-body stretch–shortening cycle (SSC) indicators across chronological age categories and playing positions in elite male youth soccer players. Methods: In a cross-sectional design, 984 male players from Slovakia (U15&n...
Background/Objectives: Pickup acceleration refers to acceleration initiated from a non-static start and can be described as a function of Approach, Transition, and Pickup steps. Given the forward-leaning posture adopted during the Transition and Pick...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to quantify the kinetic demands of multiple hops in series, movement tasks that are commonly used in strength and conditioning and physiotherapeutic practice. Focus was placed on comparing the demands of a quin...
Background/Objectives: Baseball pitching injuries associated with fatigue-induced mechanisms may be attributed to change in lower-body power. In this study, a stretch-resistant belt (theorized to increase intra-abdominal pressure) was studied to dete...
Background/Objectives: Maintaining an upright posture is a complex, adaptive neurophysiological process that relies on a set of stereotypical muscle synergies. Despite extensive research on postural control, the interaction between muscle dynamics an...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare postural balance before (PRE) and 10 min after (POST) a warm-up sequence, under unmanipulated and manipulated sensory conditions using tendon vibration. Methods: Forty-three participants were divided i...
Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare differences in positive lower limb joint work contributions during the concentric phase of the countermovement jump (CMJ) at various levels of perceived effort (PE). Methods: Twenty-four...
Background: Gait performance (spatiotemporal and kinetic parameters), physical function (range of motion [ROM] and muscle strength), quality of life (QOL), and other patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are interrelated in patients with hip oste...
Background: Trabecular-bone adaptation (TBA) continuously reshapes the trabecular-bone (TB) microstructure at the microscale in response to mechanical loading. While organ-scale adaptation has been extensively studied, the mechanisms governing the ev...
Background/Objectives: The A-Palp enables a calibrated anatomical systems technique (CAST) approach. Previous studies have demonstrated repeatability and concurrent validity for selected spinal curvature angles in patients with scoliosis. However, th...
