😃New article published in J Biomech!

'Inclusion of a skeletal model partly improves reliability of lower limb joint angles during a wide range of movement assessments recorded using a markerless depth camera', by Collings et al.

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Validity and reliability of VALD ForceDecks available in-print and open access

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Just published: Concurrent validity and test–retest reliability of VALD Performance ForceDecks strength, balance, and movement assessment tests

Interactive report for all 12 tasks and 773 unique metrics: tylercollings.github.io/ForceDecks-val…

JSAMS article: doi.org/10.1016/j.jsam…

😃 New article published in J Biomech!

'Joint contact forces during semi-recumbent seated cycling', by Crossley et al.

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Nice article in the The Courier-Mail today on Griffith University and VALD Performance efforts to reduce ACL injuries in women’s sport. Kudos to Tyler Collings and Yuri Lima for spearheading this work.

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Ready to do some heavy lifting 💪

Available now, Open Access: Biceps femoris long head muscle and aponeurosis geometry in males with and without a history of hamstring strain injury

We show differences in BFlh aponeurosis volumes in previously injured versus uninjured males.

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Our latest paper in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Journals led by Bradley Cornish showed neural networks can predict changes in hip contact force during gait modification in people with OA. This is exciting bc it can facilitate novel out-of-lab interventions for OA management! oarsijournal.com/article/S1063-…

Potentially unpopular opinion:
Sports science & medicine has advanced as far as it can based on associations/correlations.
Only research that helps understand causation will make a real impact!

Whirlwind 2 weeks in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland with VALD Performance discussing Griffith University work on #ACL injury prevention in female athletes. Kudos to Tyler Collings Benji Dutaillis Yuri Lima Will du Moulin Daniel Messer for leading this research.

Great work Will du Moulin 👉 Moment arm and torque generating capacity of semitendinosus following tendon harvesting for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A simulation study

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The best thing I've done for my scientific thinking in the last year: learning about causal inferences.

Even without performing any analysis, just thinking in DAGs helps understand theory and design studies.

Great learning resource here: cbdrh.shinyapps.io/daggle/#about

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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Thank you FIFA Medical Network Dr Andy Massey Andreas Serner for invitation & seeking, Kaizen, continuous improvement, for footballers & practice. We need to be, “be curious not judgemental” & reflect on the way we have (or not) “built” women footballers. Thx Kat Okholm Kryger for slide! n/10

Our latest paper analyzing the effectiveness of different exercise-based interventions to mitigate ACL injury risk in football players⚽️🚑Interesting finds for female soccer players, a novelty through network meta-analysis🏋️‍♀️Congrats Daniel Gallardo-Gómez Juan Corral Francisco Álvarez

Matt Siniscalchi Michael Boyle 1/n Hi Matt, the reason you can say that an intervention can reduce the risk of an event is that you can stop some events, that would have occurred without the intervention, from happening. Stopping sth from happening is exactly the dictionary definition above of prevention.

Although resourcing is an important part of the issue. This view assumes research already has all the answers to ACL injury prevention.

Beyond “do more strength training & plyometrics”, there isn’t high evidence for how to target the issue

Thanks to this amazing team for another great year full of all things biomechanics, some tribulations and triumphs, and a lot of laughs! #GCORE Griffith University Griffith Health

The editorial version of the famous conclusion line: “more research required!”