MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUSCLE CONTRACTION: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

W. Herzog

University of Calgary, Canada

ASSESSING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE STIFFNESS IN PLANTAR FLEXORS COMPLEX USING SHEAR WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY

L. Vincent, M. Zidi, P. Portero, W. Maktouf

Université Paris-Est Créteil, France

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION TRANSMISSION TO WHEELCHAIR USERS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY.

C. Bosio^1,2, C. Sauret^2,3, P. Thoreux^1,4, F. Marrone⁵, M. Tarabini⁵, D. Chadefaux^1,2

¹Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, ENSAM, IBHGC, HESAM Université, France; ²ENSAM, IBHGC, Paris, France; ³Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Appareillage des Handicapés, France; ⁴Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, AP-HP, France; ⁵Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

IMPROVING LOAD DISTRIBUTION IN SOLDIERS USING THE LOAD CARRIAGE INDEX: EFFECTS ON GAIT BIOMECHANICS

I. Ketko^1,2, N. Tuaf³, S. Ashri¹, R. Yanovich^1,2, Y. Epstein^1,4, A. G. Fischer³

¹The Institute of Military Physiology, The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps, Israel; ²Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; ⁴Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

THE ROLE OF THE DELTOID AND SYNDESMOTIC LIGAMENTS ON THE BIOMECHANICAL ROTATIONAL ANKLE (IN-)STABILITY

D. Warnecke¹, N. M. Nasef², S. Baumbach³, S. Bachmaier¹

¹Orthopedic Research Department, Arthrex GmbH, Munich, Germany; ²Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; ³MUM at Ludwig-Maximilian-University (LMU) Munich