Happy to share @pennmotionlab latest paper + 1st collab with @kgSilbernagel and @UDtendongroup. We calculated #achilles tendon #biomechanics over a range of #rehabilitation exercises to rank progressive loading...

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/9000/Exercise_Progression_to_Incrementally_Load_the.96252.aspx
We calculates 3 aspects of loading biomechanics 1) peak load, 2) impulse, and 3) loading rate. We think peak load is most important in healing tendon so we gave that the strongest scaling factor, then impulse, then rate...
But you might think Achilles loading parameters should be weighted differently. So we made an app for that... a macro in excel actually. So you can calculate the loading rankings based on your own intuition...
We split these loading rankings into 4 tiers to progressively load the tendon, and broke these tiers further into isolated ankle movements and multi joint movements. Which we think will give clinicians more flexibility with designing rehab protocols.
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