biomechanics

The planche is a gymnastics exercise where the athlete holds their body parallel to ground supported only by their hands. People sometimes train for this exercise using a progression of ``planche leans''. The athlete will move their hands progressively closer to their center of mass while maintaining a straight back and straight arms. Over years, by steadily decreasing this distance, the athlet…

The Hip Thrust has been an exercise that has troubled me a lot when it comes to drawing a FBD of it. I wonder if anyone can help create a FBD of the hip thrust and for a practical demonstration be able to show why it’s harder at the top than at the bottom! Thank you!

Thanks to recent progress in physics-based simulators and robotics, it has never been easier for neuroscientists to use neuromechanical modeling to test hypotheses about animal movement.

Nearly 15 years ago, scientists found that plants had a biological mechanism that controls their morphology – or, in simpler terms, their form – thought to have only been something seen in animals. Now, researchers from the same institution have uncovered how it works. It's basically a tree's version of a muscle. Continue Reading Category: Environment , Science Tags: Tree , BioLogic , Muscle , Bi…

Scientific Data, Published online: 02 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-08156-5 A multimodal gait dataset with ultrasound, EMG, and motion capture from young adults at various walking speeds

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Highly trained dancers provide insights for researchers helping design improved rehab programs for people with mobility impairments. The next step could include rehab robots as dance partners.

Heart disease can change the genetic structure of heart cells. Understanding the role that mechanical forces play in these changes could lead to improvements in artificial tissue design.

The narwhal's defining feature – its continuously growing tusk – is the only straight structure of its kind seen in nature. Now, scientists have cracked the code on how these elusive Arctic whales grow such an impressive and unique tool. Continue Reading Category: Biology , Science , Refractor: Science & Health Tags: Marine Biology , Whale , Marine Innovations , Tools , Biomechanics , Sensory , T…

Scientific Data, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07799-8 GaitIntent: A Kinematic Dataset Focusing on Steady-State to Transitional Locomotion for Lower-Limb Motion Rehabilitation

Seattle quarterback Sam Darnold is an NFL leader when it comes to "spin rate," a measurement of rotations of a football while it's in flight that helps produce a tighter spiral. Read More

Dr. Rajandeep Sekhon leads the Clemson University team participating in a four-year, $6 million National Science Foundation collaborative grant for the project “Collaborative Research: FEC: Converging AI, Biomechanics, and Genomics to Engineer Lodging Resilient Field Crops.” Dr. James Morris is part of a team that was awarded a NIH grant, “Optimization of N. fowleri inhibitors […]

Scientific Data, Published online: 08 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07791-2 A Multimodal Dataset for Clinical Gait Analysis compromising Optical Motion Capture and Textual Gait Analyses from Patients undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty

American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Published online: 20 July 2026; doi:10.3844/ajbbsp.2026.22.02.024 Aiming at the problems of marker positioning error, soft tissue interference, and insufficient personalized modeling ability in traditional gait analysis, this study proposes a gait assessment method ...

IntroductionRib fractures result in significant morbidity and mortality of equine neonates. Various methods to repair these fractures have been described but biomechanical testing in immature equine neonatal bone has not been performed. The study objective was to compare strength, stiffness, and mode of failure for four different methods of equine neonatal rib fracture repair.MethodsRibs were ran…

Previously, researchers created electrical implants to control cockroaches' movements for search-and-rescue missions. Now, they've made 3D-printed suits that provide oxygen, allowing the critters to survive submerged for up to three hours

Scientific Reports, Published online: 04 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-59989-4 Pose-derived biomechanical feature profiling and proxy pattern classification of basketball player movements