Publications by authors named "Grace Cassidy"
Introduction: Hippotherapy is a physical therapy tool that utilizes horseback riding to improve strength, coordination, gait, and balance. These benefits may be linked to similarities in kinematics and muscle activation between horseback riding and normal human gait, but this is not well represented in the literature, especially for muscle activation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between muscle activation of horseback riding and healthy human gait.
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- - Recent research in polymer physics examines macro-scale bead chains that mimic the diffusive behavior of microscopic polymers like DNA, using a novel setup with granular media and air fluidization to induce randomness in motion.
- - The study utilizes X-ray imaging to analyze the dynamics of these bead chains, varying chain lengths and fluidizing airflow rates to explore different motion behaviors that deviate from expected Gaussian distributions.
- - Additionally, Discrete Element Method simulations investigate the forces acting on the bead chains, with plans for future research to delve into different chain compositions and confinement geometries to better understand the physics of larger biopolymers.