Browsing by Author "Domire, Zachary"
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CHANGES IN MOMENT ARM OF THE SEMITENDINOSUS AND KNEE MOMENT POST ACL RECONSTRUCTION
Dunlap, Michaela (East Carolina University, 2018-12-07)The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is the most common ligament to rupture in the knee, especially among athletes whose sports are multidirectional (Buller et al., 2017). 1 in every 3000 Americans tears an ACL each year, ... -
Developing a Musculoskeletal Model of Landing
Goel, Leela Devi (East Carolina University, 2016-04-28)Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injuries are a common sports related injury that results in a loss of play time, are painful, and limit a person’s quality of life while injured. ACL injuries often occur when a person is ... -
Development and Application of a Custom Algorithm to Assess Hamstring Muscle Stiffness
Harrison, David (East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are the most diagnosed musculoskeletal injury among elite international track [and] field athletes. HSIs appear to occur most often during terminal swing phase of sprinting, placing track ... -
The Effect of Nordic Hamstring Strength Training on Muscle Architecture, Stiffness, and Strength
DeVita, Paul, 1955-; Domire, Zachary; Rider, Patrick M.; Kulas, Anthony S. (2017-03-09) -
Effects of a Six Week Gastrocnemius PNF Stretching Intervention on Structural Properties of Muscle and Neural Adaptations of Muscle in Young Women
Semanderes, Alex Emanuel (East Carolina University, 2018-05-18)Muscle injuries account for nearly one-third of sport medicine clinic visits in the United States (Woods et al, 2007) and amass financial burden on both athletes and their respective sports clubs. It is unclear whether ... -
Effects Of Extracellular Matrix Stiffness On Muscle Fiber Mechanotransduction Signaling In Aged Rats
Salzano, Matthew (East Carolina University, 2015)The loss of muscle mass with age, termed sarcopenia, is a common problem among the over 60 years-old population. Resistance training is often prescribed as treatment, but older adults have shown a reduced response to ... -
EFFECTS OF HEEL HEIGHT ON STIFFNESS IN THE GASTROCNEMIUS OF YOUNGER WOMEN
Waugh, Brandon Logan (East Carolina University, 2023-05-05)Gastrocnemius Stress and Stiffness Research. Anecdotally, studies that have been completed by the research team have suggested that women generally have stiffer calves than men. A likely mechanism for this is that high ... -
Enhanced Sensorimotor Kinematics of the Baseball Swing in Elite Batters During a Known Pitch Type
Silberg, Ryan (East Carolina University, 2019-12-10)The interceptive task of hitting a baseball requires temporal and spatial precision through effective pitch tracking strategies and swing mechanics to achieve success. Overall, these factors dictate the quality of the ... -
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SHOULDER AND ELBOW SOFT-TISSUE PROPERTIES, THROWING MECHANICS, AND RANGE OF MOTION IN ADULT BASEBALL PITCHERS
Curran, Christopher J. (East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Overhead throwing places extremely high loads on soft-tissue structures of the shoulder and elbow, causing pitchers to be injured at an alarming rate. Most researchers believe soft-tissue injuries in pitchers are acute ... -
GENE EXPRESSION IN RESPONSE TO MECHANICAL LOADING ON THE ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT
Diefenbach, Brian (East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)Many tissues in the body, especially bone, have exhibited adaptive responses to lowmagnitude, high frequency mechanical loading. However, the response of ligament to these types of mechanical loads is not well understood. ... -
Impact of Muscle Material Properties on the Hypertrophic Response of Aged Women to Resistance Exercise
Hibbert, Jamie E (East Carolina University, 2016-07-21)All of the reports that comprise this dissertation center around the overarching hypothesis that the attenuated response to resistance exercise observed in older adults is caused by an impaired ability of the muscle to ... -
Males and Females Respond Similarly to Walking with a Standardized, Heavy Load
DeVita, Paul, 1955-; Rider, Patrick; Domire, Zachary (2015-09-01) -
Measuring Individual Muscle Force Using Ultrasound Elastography and Motion Capture
Imoh, Nancy C (East Carolina University, 2023-05-04)Human musculature is over-determined so that one muscle could complete a movement that we make using several. For example, the biceps brachii is an agonist muscle for both elbow flexion and supination of the forearm. In ... -
Muscle stiffness as a cause of reduced muscle volume - a reliability study
McEarl, Amanda L. (2014-12)A leading cause of impairment in elderly individuals is sarcopenia, the progressive deterioration of muscle size and strength, which ultimately limits muscle functionality. The loss of muscular strength is directly correlated ... -
Shearwave elastography : a prospective study on short term changes in UCL health of college baseball pitchers
Zale, Henry (East Carolina University, 2018-07-31)The rate of ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction surgery, or "Tommy John" surgery, has risen dramatically in baseball pitchers over the last decade. Throughout the baseball pitching motion, the UCL undergoes ... -
Stiffness of Intrinsic Foot Structures in Diabetic Individuals and the Effect of Stiffness on Plantar Pressures During Gait
Bell, Erica A (East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)Plantar foot ulcers are a severe and common complication associated with diabetes that overwhelmingly lead to non-traumatic major amputations among diabetic individuals. There are several known factors that contribute to ... -
Stretching as pre-intervention can improve aged muscle's response to a resistance training intervention
Gomez Granados, Ana (East Carolina University, 2018-08-30)Sarcopenia represents an important problem in older women affecting their physical function. Resistance training interventions in older adults have been widely investigated, and the effect they have in this population have ... -
Utilizing Ultrasound Elastography to Examine the Material Properties of the Interosseous Membrane
Kubit, Ashley Nicole (East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)The involvement of the distal radio-ulnar joint (DRUJ) in a combination of high and low impact activities can lead to a variety of injuries. Previous studies done on cadavers have revealed that the distal interosseous ...