Webinar on Computing Sit-To-Stand Biomechanics Using a Mobile Phone  

Wednesday, June 21, 2023, 9:00 AM Pacific Time  

   

We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar with Melissa Boswell from Stanford University entitled “Sit2Stand: Assessing Health and Mobility from Smartphone Videos.” She will present an overview of sit2stand.ai, a freely available web application to capture and automatically analyze self-collected at-home videos of the five-repetition sit-to-stand test. Dr. Boswell will review the findings of a nationwide at-home biomechanics study using sit2stand and also guide participants through a tutorial for implementing their processing and analysis pipelines. Learn more and register | Read the paper | Read the press release  

   

Register for Research Summit: Models & Sensors to Measure Real-World Muscle Function & Movement  

Sunday, June 18, 2023, Canmore, AB, Canada  

  

The Restore and Mobilize Centers at Stanford University and C-STAR at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab invite you to a research summit, “Models & Sensors to Measure Real-World Muscle Function & Movement.” Hear about late-breaking research, along with available tools, frameworks, and best practices for applying machine learning and wearable sensing to study real world movement. This meeting will take place just prior to the Rocky Mountain Muscle Symposium. Learn more and register | See the agenda  

  

Attend Upcoming Conference Workshops for Restore and Mobilize Center Tools   

  

Members of the Restore and Mobilize Centers will be leading two workshops focused on OpenCap (software for measuring human movement using smartphone videos), AddBiomechanics (cloud-based software for computing inverse kinematics and dynamics from marker-based motion capture data), and Sit2Stand (software for analyzing the sit-to-stand test using a single smartphone video).  

We encourage you to attend if you are interested in utilizing these tools for your research. 

  

Perspectives Article on Becoming a Musculoskeletal Simulation Expert  

  

Scott Uhlrich and colleagues from Stanford University and the University of Ottawa recently wrote a perspective article entitled “Ten steps to becoming a musculoskeletal simulation expert: A half-century of progress and outlook for the future” for the 50th anniversary of the International Society on Biomechanics. In the paper, they provide ten steps for becoming a musculoskeletal simulation expert by reviewing what has been done in the past and providing a roadmap for what is possible in the future. Read the scientific article