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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Join Our Next OpenSim Webinar “Predictive Simulation of Biological Motion Using SCONE”</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">October 24, 2019 at 11am Pacific Daylight Time</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Predictive simulations generate motion trajectories that perform a specific task according to high-level objectives, such as walking
speed or energy efficiency. This approach is useful for applications where the motion is unknown, for example, in predicting treatment outcomes. In this webinar, Thomas Geijtenbeek from Delft University will provide an introduction to predictive simulations
and a new software framework <a href="https://scone.software/">SCONE</a> that enables individuals without programming skills to run predictive simulations.
<a href="https://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.php?id=230&title=OpenSim-Webinar-Predictive-Simulation-of-Biological-Motion-using-SCONE">
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Webinar: Jumping into Musculoskeletal Modeling with OpenSim</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">October 16, 2019 at 8am Pacific Daylight Time</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Join us
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">for an introductory tutorial on OpenSim given by
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jennifer Hicks,<b>
</b>NCSRR<b> </b></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Associate Director and the OpenSim Research and Development Manager. As part of the European Society of Biomechanics webinar series, this webinar will highlight
the main capabilities of OpenSim, including new features from the latest release of the software. Dr. Hicks will also demonstrate a typical pipeline for creating and visualizing a muscle-driven simulation starting with motion capture data of a subject jumping.
<a href="https://esbiomech.org/blog/2019/09/16/2nd-esb-webinar-announced/">Learn more and register</a></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="xxmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Predicting Gait Adaptations Due to Ankle Plantarflexor Muscle Weakness and Contracture<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xxmsonormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Carmichael Ong and colleagues at Stanford University have utilized the
<a href="https://scone.software/">SCONE</a> predictive simulation framework to achieve realistic motions of walking at different speeds
<i>de novo</i>. They utilize their framework to demonstrate how plantarflexor weakness and contracture result in heel walking and toe walking, respectively. Their research was just published in PLoS Computational Biology. The
<a href="https://simtk.org/projects/pfdeficitsgait">software and experimental data</a> used in the study are available at SimTK.
<a href="https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006993">
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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<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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