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Neuromuscular recruitment strategies during cycling exercise
There are individual differences in the way that we use our muscles during movement. Additionally, muscle function changes with use, injury, disease, rehabilitation and ageing. Currently there is a gap in our understanding of how to fully quantify muscle function during movements and how to use this knowledge to cause positive training and rehabilitation outcomes.
The purpose of this PhD studentship will be to develop new techniques and ideas to quantify muscle structure and function, and to use these to facilitate alterations to muscle function during movement. The project will focus on a cycling paradigm where we can challenge the body to deliver a range of forces and velocities within a relatively constrained kinematic task.
The studentship with be conducted at two sites: Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK with Dr. Emma Hodson-Tole, and Simon Fraser University in Canada with Dr. James Wakeling. The scholarship is only available to UK and EU nationals, however, the student must be willing top travel and work between the two sites. More information can be found at http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/resea...hcare-science/ with the project title: Neuromuscular recruitment strategies during cycling exercise (Reference number HCS-EHT-2015-X-PhD).
There are individual differences in the way that we use our muscles during movement. Additionally, muscle function changes with use, injury, disease, rehabilitation and ageing. Currently there is a gap in our understanding of how to fully quantify muscle function during movements and how to use this knowledge to cause positive training and rehabilitation outcomes.
The purpose of this PhD studentship will be to develop new techniques and ideas to quantify muscle structure and function, and to use these to facilitate alterations to muscle function during movement. The project will focus on a cycling paradigm where we can challenge the body to deliver a range of forces and velocities within a relatively constrained kinematic task.
The studentship with be conducted at two sites: Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK with Dr. Emma Hodson-Tole, and Simon Fraser University in Canada with Dr. James Wakeling. The scholarship is only available to UK and EU nationals, however, the student must be willing top travel and work between the two sites. More information can be found at http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/research/resea...hcare-science/ with the project title: Neuromuscular recruitment strategies during cycling exercise (Reference number HCS-EHT-2015-X-PhD).