Biomechanical modeling of the musculoskeletal system has become an important issue in human motion analysis. The scope of this paper is focused on the optimization of long jump landing using musculoskeletal system. In the long jump, athletes are affected by the dynamics of the sand pit that is different from a hard surface in the landing phase. Therefore, in order to obtain a good landing motio...

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain may be triggered by physical strains and psychosocial risk factors. The effort-reward imbalance model (ERI model) is a stress model which measures psychosocial factors in the working world. The question is whether workers with an effort-reward imbalance report musculoskeletal pain more frequently than those with no effort-reward imbalance. A systematic review usi...

This paper reviews the simulation software the AnyBody Modeling System, which was originally developed by the authors. AnyBody is capable of analyzing the musculoskeletal system of humans or other creatures as rigid-body systems. The paper introduces the main features of the system; in particular, the inverse dynamic analysis that resolves the fundamental indeterminacy of the muscle configurati...