We collaborate with:
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Hortobágyi collaborates with Drs. Mark Hallett and Peter Lin at the NINDS using muscle-to-muscle EMG coherence analysis in aging. The hypothesis is that age affects the EMG / EMG coherence between agonist and antagonist muscles and such changes in neural organization in part underlie the declines on motor function.
School of Nursing, East Carolina University
Dr. Rebecca Benfield in her NIH funded project has been collaborating with Dr. Hortobágyi in a special application of electromyography. One project examines the hypothesis if women laboring in warm water have stronger contractions and easier delivery compared with labor in the conventional form. EMG recorded from the uterine muscle is used as an indicator of contraction strength. Recent efforts focus on the issue if epidural blocks compromise or facilitate labor in terms if uterine contractile function, as assessed with surface EMG.
Wake Forest University
Dr. DeVita collaborates with Dr. Stephen Messier and his colleagues at Wake Forest University to investigate biomechanical and physiological processes and outcomes in people with knee osteoarthritis. This work is currently supported by the NIH (R01AR052528-02, P.I. Messier) and is titled, “Intensive Dietary Restriction with Exercise in Arthritis.” Dr. DeVita’s role is to analyze knee joint forces during walking through a biomechanical model of the lower extremity and investigate whether these forces change through diet and exercise.
The abstract.
A television news story about this research study.
University College, London
Dr. Hortobágyi is collaborating with Dr. John Rothwell on determining the motor cortical mechanisms of the age-related increase in antagonist muscle coactivation using transcranial magnetic brain sitmulation.
