Mechanical tension, not muscle activation matters most for muscle hypertrophy.

Rats trained with equal muscle activation, yet greater muscle force (due to iso vs con contractions) had greater increases in muscle CSA

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We're looking for a talented and highly motivated researcher to join our lab at University of Padua (Italy)!
The researcher will work on a funded project focused on neuromuscular changes occurring with older age using HD-EMG
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🔓 #OpenAccess 'Voluntary muscle coactivation in quiet standing elicits reciprocal rather than coactive agonist-antagonist control of reactive balance' by Giovanni Martino et al.

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Owen Beck Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting #ReciprocalActivation #PosturalPerturbations

Today with Paul Ritsche we gave birth to the largest project of my PhD! openhdemg took my every night and and weekend in the last two years. I am now so happy to share this Python library for the analysis of MUs properties from HD-EMG recordings with you all!

Today we announce the first beta release of openhdemg.

You can now test all the functionalities of this innovative framework for the analysis of MUs properties from HD-EMG recordings!

Please remember, a beta release is only for testing purpose!

giacomovalli.com/openhdemg/

PRIN, again! 🥰

with Francesca Sylos-Labini (Roma Tor Vergata University) we have been awarded a grant from the Italian Ministry of University & Research (Projects of Relevant National Interest -PRIN)!!

I simply love this project - can't wait to start!
We will be hiring soon 🤩

📖Voluntary muscle #coactivation in quiet standing elicits reciprocal rather than coactive agonist-antagonist control of reactive balance(Giovanni Martino et al.)
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Owen Beck Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting #ReciprocalActivation #EMG #PosturalPerturbations #FeedbackResponse

Voluntary muscle coactivation in quiet standing elicits reciprocal rather than coactive agonist-antagonist control of reactive balance | Giovanni Martino Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting

JNP Link: doi.org/10.1152/jn.004…

Excited to share our new research: “Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance.” w/ Owen Beck, Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting and GaTech PoWeR Lab.
Paper: science.org/doi/epdf/10.11…
Jargon-free explanation: theconversation.com/faster-than-re…
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Can ankle exoskeletons help people maintain balance? Some answers from Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting Gregory S. Sawicki @owen1beck & Max Shepherd published in Science Robotics: b.gatech.edu/3jTjwS1

Happy to share this work about how muscle synergies can be used to physiologically interpret the clinical assessment provided by the Fugl-Meyer, result of a fruitful Japanese/Italian collaboration. academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

I have been lucky enough to visit my family after 16 months and come back in the USA, but the majority of us international researchers have not been able to do the same, with an indefinite wait ahead...
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Excited to share that our work has been accepted for publication. We showed the usefulness of the pendulum test in assessing parkinsonian rigidity, and how the biomechanical changes in presence of an activation maneuver are associated to fall history.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Excited to share the preprint of our work about the biomechanical analysis of the pendulum test in Parkinson's disease #tweeprint
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Happy to announce that our paper is out. Study by Jente Willaert in collaboration with Neuromechanics Lab is Lena Ting, Kaat Desloovere, and Anja Van Campenhout.

Movement History Influences Pendulum Test Kinematics in Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Join us for a chat in the @ASB2020_ATL SpatialChat Lounges! Sponsored today by National Biomechanics Day. Access the link through the ASB CrowdCompass App. #vASB2020

I just had an intimate and difficult conversation with my lab about racism, microaggession, our lived experiences, and what we could begin to do about it after watching Platt Lab give the 2017 BMES Diversity Award Lecture together. Will you do the same? youtube.com/watch?v=s4UKk0…

Another #NCMawi award winner is Marta Russo Marta Russo - postdoc with Dagmar Sternad Action Lab at Northeastern University. She will focus on the effect of mechanical and human support on postural balance, both in non-trained individuals and professional ballet dancers.

Congrats! :)