Dr. Brent Edwards

 

University of Calgary

 

Topic: The “ins and outs” of bone loading and stress fracture prediction

Stress fractures have been characterized as a mechanical fatigue process, whereby cumulative physical activity results in microdamage accumulation and impaired tissue quality. Mechanical fatigue is heavily dependent on the resulting strain (“the ins”, i.e., internal) from the applied load (“the outs”, i.e., external), which can be approximated using in-silico modeling approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches are arduous and often limited to the laboratory. For this reason, sport scientists frequently rely on surrogate measures of bone strain, including information from wearable technology. This talk will review current understanding of the mechanical fatigue process in bone, including its dependency on strain magnitude, potential sources of variation, and probabilistic methods to characterize fatigue failure. The challenges associated with extending the mechanical fatigue paradigm to stress fracture prediction will then be discussed, along with recent advancements in load monitoring and integrative biomechanical methods for personalized risk assessment.

 

 

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Dr. Emma Hodson-Tole

 

Manchester Metropolitan University

 

Emma Hodson-Tole obtained her Ph.D. degree in biomechanics and muscle physiology from The Royal Veterinary College, University of London in 2007. She worked as a postdoctoral fellow in The School of Applied Physiology at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, before being awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, from The Wellcome Trust, and returning to the UK to work at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is now Reader in Neuromusculoskeletal Integration in the Musculoskeletal Sciences & Sports Medicine Research Centre and Institute of Sport at Manchester Metropolitan. Her work combines ultrasound imaging techniques and electromyography to investigate dynamics of skeletal muscle anatomy, motor unit recruitment and multi-muscle coordination patterns during locomotor tasks, such as cycling.

 

 

 

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Dr. Cat Shin

 

English Institute of Sport

 

Cat is currently the biomechanics project lead at the EIS. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Lincoln with Biritsh Canoeing and the EIS.

 

She worked with the senior Olympic sprint kayakers for two years and has supported Team GB in two Olympic cycles. As biomechanics project lead she runs projects in a huge variety of Olympic and Paralympic sports looking at optimising performance, assessing equipment, reducing injury risk or using biomechanics tools to facilitate learning.

 

Dr. Todd Pataky*

 

Kyoto University

 

Prof. Pataky's research focuses on the analysis and simulation of random processes in biomechanical systems and continua. He studies a variety of human movement applications including: clinical gait analysis, sports performance assessment, and stochastic simulation of human dynamics. He is the creator of a number of open-source software packages for the biomechanics community including spm1d, the popular package used for 1D Statistical Parametric Mapping, and power1d for numerical estimates of statistical power.

 

*Todd's travel to ISBS2022 is currently not permitted by his university and therefore his attendance will be subject to relaxation of travel rules near to the conference dates.

 

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