CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

Casey R, Nuesslein C, Mazmudar A, Sawicki GS, Young AJ, “Low-profile wearable suit for sensing human dynamics”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8- 11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Smith RE, Shelton AD, Sawicki GS, Franz J, “Plantarflexor weakness and lesser Achilles tendon stiffness associate with greater vulnerability to walking balance perturbations”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Pimentel R, Trejo L, Saul K, Sawicki GS, Franz J, “The interactive effects of biological tendon and ankle exoskeleton stiffnesses on walking metabolic cost”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Thomas S, Joshi R, Cheng B, Cheng H, Aynardi MC, Sawicki GS, Rubenson J, “An implantable actuator for muscle force assistance in a bipedal animal model”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Rastogi R, Jakubowski K, Martino G, Beck ON, Shepherd M, Sawicki GS, Ting L, “Too much exoskeleton assistance can disrupt user balance correction”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Punith LK, Sawicki GS, “Trading off stability, agility and efficiency of movement across a broad range of muscle tendon morphologies”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Lou Q, Alshareef A, Sawicki GS, “Prolonged load carriage during walking induces fatigue and redistributes lower limb muscle effort”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Govindaraj T, Sawicki GS, Nichols TR, “Inter-joint monosynaptic feedback reduces sensitivity to perturbation direction”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Chen P, Shafer B, Du WL, Young AJ, Sawicki GS, “Which hip model best predicts biological torques across modes? A simulation study”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Shafer B, Peart K, So R, Young AJ, Sawicki GS, “Do humans use muscle activity or energetics to select walking speed? What we can learn from ankle exoskeleton interventions”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Gosyne J, Vitale C, Lou Q, Sawicki GS, “Development of a foot-ankle exoskeleton to reduce the metabolic cost of dissipative terrain locomotion”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Gosyne J, Lou Q, Vitale C, Sawicki GS, “Linking the terradynamics, mechanics and energetics of dissipative terrain locomotion”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Trejo L, Franz JR, Sawicki GS, “Older adults benefit more than younger from active, but not passive, ankle exoskeletons”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Modarressi MS, Rock CG, Sawicki GS, Chang YH, “Impacts of fatigue on neuromechanical strategies in single-legged jumping”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Schroeder JN, Beck ON, Sawicki GS, “Relatively small changes in foot-ankle mechanics over months alter musculoskeletal structure”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Schroeder JN, Beck ON, Franz J, Sawicki GS, “Impact of triceps-surae operating lengths on whole body metabolic cost”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Alshareef A, Moore O, Franz J, Sawicki GS, “Ankle exoskeletons mitigate calf muscle fatigue over 30 minute walking bouts”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Alshareef A, Nardelli P, Cope T, Ting L, Sawicki GS, “Elastic exoskeleton influence on muscle spindle firing in-vivo”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Davenport F, Leestma JK, Nuesslein C, Fernanez J, Kim R, Casey R, Wheeler J, Mazumdar A, Young AJ, Sawicki GS, “Offsetting the load: Can exoskeletons mitigate injury risk during industrial lifting tasks?”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Beck ON, Schroeder JN, Sawicki GS, “Wearing high heels remodels leg muscle-tendons and improves walking economy”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Leestma JK, Iyer V, Young AJ, Sawicki GS, “Hop, skip, and a jump: investigating why people jump in response to walking perturbations”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Leestma JK, Sawicki GS, Young AJ, “Does the relationship between whole body angular momentum and step placement change in individuals post-stroke?”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, August 8-11, Knoxville, Tennessee (2023).

Jakubowski K, Sawicki GS, Ting L, “Center of mass kinematics robustly predict reactive joint torques at the ankle, knee, and hip during perturbed standing”, XXIX Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), July 30- August 3, Fukuoka, Japan (2023). 

Punith LK, Abbott EM, Sawicki GS, “Dynamic muscle properties enable rapid recovery from terrain perturbations without change in neural control”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), January 3-7, Austin, Texas (2023). *Selected as finalist for D. Dwight Davis Award -Best Student Presentation in the Division of Vertebrate Morphology.