Kinesiology doctoral candidate Skylar Holmes recently received a two-year, $44,916 F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate muscle fatigue’s impact on gait mechanics and neuromuscular control in kne
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created a low-cost shoe insole containing force-sensitive resistors (FSR) that intends to enhance the treatment of mobility-impairing health problems such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, and osteoarthritis.
The insole “measures two important kinetic parameters that are relevant to how people walk; that is, the ground reaction force (GRF) and center of pressure (CoP),” says lead investigator Sunghoon Ivan Lee , assistant professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences .