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This paper provides a brief summary of work completed to date in our research laboratory investigating lower-limb muscle function during human running. Muscle function has been evaluated using a variety of methods, including muscle electromyography, inverse dynamics, and computational musculoskeletal modeling. It is evident that the coordination amongst the major lower-limb muscles changes considerably when running speed is progressed from jogging through to maximum sprinting. The ankle plantarflexor muscles appear to have a dominant role up to running speeds of around 7 ms− 1. For running speeds beyond 7 ms− 1, the hip flexor and extensor muscles become far more critical. These findings provide insight into the strategies used by the lower-limb muscles to maximize running performance and have implications for the design of injury prevention programs.
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Schache, A.G., Dorn, T.W., Pandy, M.G. (2013). Lower-Limb Muscle Function in Human Running. In: Kumar, V., Schmiedeler, J., Sreenivasan, S., Su, HJ. (eds) Advances in Mechanisms, Robotics and Design Education and Research. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 14. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00398-6_25
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