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NEUROMECHANICS
LABORATORY
Our research is currently focused on
biomechanics and motor control of (1) hand and digits and (2)
persons with lower extremity amputations as well as their
applications to medicine, rehabilitation, and ergonomics. We are
especially interested in understanding the CNS control mechanism for motor
redundancy, developments of
motor functions in typically developing children as well as children
with developmental coordination disorder, developmental changes and intervention
& adaptation
of motor functions in elderly persons and the persons with
neurological/genetic disorders or stroke, and physiological and
biomechanical risk and interventions of persons with lower extremity
amputations. We use techniques of
biomechanics, motor control, neurophysiology, and exercise
physiology: kinematic analysis
using motion capture systems, kinetic/dynamic analysis,
neuromuscular training, TMS, EMG, MEG, MRI, optic
fiber Bragg grading (FBG)
force sensors, 6-D kinetic pen,
cardiovascular exercise, neuromuscular training, epidemiology, etc. |