Use Treadmills with Caution: Walking Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Cost Are Elevated Compared to Overground Across Multiple Speeds in Healthy Young Adults [PDF]
Journal of Functional Morphology and KinesiologyObjectives: Treadmill walking is often employed for tightly controlled gait and energetics research, but growing evidence suggests that treadmill-based metabolic and biomechanical measurements may not directly reflect the ecologically valid mode of ...
Sauvik Das Gupta +3 more
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A Fully Soft and Passive Assistive Device to Lower the Metabolic Cost of Sit-to-Stand
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Various assistive devices like exoskeletons have been developed to aid the growing number of disabled people. Recent studies have started to explore using soft rather than rigid components to create lightweight and unobtrusive systems that can be more ...
Hangil Lee +2 more
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Ground Reaction Forces and Joint Moments Predict Metabolic Cost in Physical Performance: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Neural Networks [PDF]
Applied SciencesUnderstanding metabolic cost through biomechanical data, including ground reaction forces (GRFs) and joint moments, is vital for health, sports, and rehabilitation.
Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi +4 more
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Task-Dependent Effectiveness of a Quasi-Direct-Drive Upper-Limb Exoskeleton: Shoulder Muscle Offloading Versus Metabolic Cost in Overhead Work [PDF]
BioengineeringWork-related shoulder disorders during overhead assembly represent a persistent occupational challenge. We evaluated a quasi-direct-drive (QDD) active upper-limb exoskeleton during simulated overhead work, providing simultaneous metabolic ...
Yongxuan Hong +5 more
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Optimizing hip exoskeleton assistance pattern based on machine learning and simulation algorithms: a personalized approach to metabolic cost reduction [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AIIntroductionHip exoskeletons can lower the metabolic cost of walking in many tasks and populations, but their assistance patterns must be tailored to each user.
Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi +6 more
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How Gait Nonlinearities in Individuals Without Known Pathology Describe Metabolic Cost During Walking Using Artificial Neural Network and Multiple Linear Regression [PDF]
Applied SciencesThis study uses Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and multiple linear regression (MLR) models to explore the relationship between gait dynamics and the metabolic cost.
Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi +2 more
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Critical Neural Networks Minimize Metabolic Cost
Physics, 2021 Brain dynamics show a rich spatiotemporal behavior whose stability is neither ordered nor chaotic, indicating that neural networks operate at intermediate stability regimes including critical dynamics represented by a negative power-law distribution of ...
Daniel Aguilar-Velázquez
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Musculoskeletal Model Personalization Affects Metabolic Cost Estimates for Walking
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Assessment of metabolic cost as a metric for human performance has expanded across various fields within the scientific, clinical, and engineering communities.
Marleny M. Arones +3 more
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The Oxygen Consumption and Metabolic Cost of Walking and Running in Adults With Achondroplasia
Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 The disproportionate body mass and leg length of Achondroplasic individuals may affect their net oxygen consumption (V͘O2) and metabolic cost (C) when walking at running compared to those of average stature (controls).
David T. Sims +4 more
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The metabolic cost of physical activity in mice using a physiology-based model of energy expenditure [PDF]
Molecular Metabolism, 2023 Marc Reitman +2 more
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