Fall 2025

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Muscle models are essential for our understanding of muscle function. While traditional models may work well for single fibres during steady contractions, their performance is much worse for whole muscles during natural behaviours. This presentation will consider different aspect of physiology and mechanics that influence the forces that muscles develop, how these features can be incorporated into muscle models, and the insights that we gain about how muscle design and use is related to whole muscle energetics and mechanical performance.

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The glenohumeral joint’s stability is primarily achieved through muscular activation rather than bony constraints. This talk will start with an analysis of in vivo subject specific variability in glenohumeral translations measured with biplanar fluoroscopy. This will be followed by an overview of our development of subject-specific, 6 DoF glenohumeral joint models, including our efforts to dynamically couple finite element and multibody dynamics methods to produce more biofidelic loading scenarios for shoulder treatment development.

Spring 2026

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