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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Workshop on OpenSim Moco, a New Software Providing Optimal Control Methods for Simulation Biomechanics<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">July 28, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ISB TGCS Symposium, Alberta, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The OpenSim team will be running a workshop
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">at the <a href="https://isbweb.org/~tgcs/iscsb-2019/canmore.html">
17<sup>th</sup> International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics</a> (TGCS 2019) to introduce OpenSim Moco, a new software package for solving common problems in simulation biomechanics, including tracking simulations, predictive simulations,
and muscle-redundancy problems. Moco leverages the <a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/">
OpenSim</a> software’s existing modeling capabilities and enables researchers without numerical methods expertise to apply state-of-the-art optimal control methods to their simulations.
<a href="https://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.php?id=217&title=Introducing-OpenSim-Moco-Optimal-Control-Methods-for-Musculoskeletal-Simulation">
Learn more</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New Full-Body Model for Simulating Lifting Motions Now Available </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Erica Beaucage-Gauvreau from the University of Adelaide and colleagues have developed and made freely available their new model for estimating lower lumbar spine loads during lifting tasks.
<span style="color:black;background:white">The model was validated through comparisons with experimental electromyography, reported intradiscal pressures, and reported vertebral body implant measurements.</span> The
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10255842.2018.1564819" target="_blank">
associated publication</a> describing this work appeared in <i>Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering
</i>in February 2019. <a href="https://simtk.org/projects/lfbmodel" target="_blank">
Access the model</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New OpenSim Fellows Offer Expertise to Community in Modeling of Muscle Redundancy, Knee Modeling, and Experimental Techniques For Simulations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Our
<a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/fellows.html"><span style="color:#326CA6">OpenSim Fellows Program</span></a> cultivates and engages a community of OpenSim experts who collectively advance the field of neuro-musculoskeletal modeling and simulation.
These individuals expand OpenSim’s impact, helping to train the next generation of researchers and serving as consultants or new collaborators on projects needing modeling and simulation expertise. We are pleased to announce that Dominic Farris and Dimitar
Stanev have been selected as our newest Fellows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Dominic Farris is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and a past NCSRR Visiting Scholar. He is an
expert in <span style="background:white">experimental ultrasound imaging methods to generate
<i>in vivo</i> measures of muscle strains, and surface or intramuscular electromyography. He has experience using these techniques to determine model inputs and validate simulation results.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Dimitar Stanev is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Patras in Greece. His research focuses on methods development to handle
muscle redundancy in modeling and simulation and also on knee modeling with application to osteoarthritis, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, and total knee replacement.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white"><a href="https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu:8443/display/OpenSim/OpenSim+Fellows">Learn more about Dr. Farris, Dr. Stanev,
and the other OpenSim Fellows</a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Joy P. Ku, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Project Manager,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"><a href="http://simtk.org/"><span style="color:black">SimTK</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Director of Communications & Training,
<a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/"><span style="color:#404040">NCSRR</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Director of Communications & Engagement,
<a href="http://mobilize.stanford.edu/"><span style="color:#404040">Mobilize Center</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">(w) 650.736.8434, (f) 650.723.7461<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#404040">Email: <a href="mailto:joyku@stanford.edu">
<span style="color:#0563C1">joyku@stanford.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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