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List of works by Kei Masani

A complete, non-lumped, and verifiable set of upper body segment parameters for three-dimensional dynamic modeling

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

A comprehensive three-dimensional dynamic model of the human head and trunk for estimating lumbar and cervical joint torques and forces from upper body kinematics.

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

A randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: Effects on walking competency

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A randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on body composition

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Action possibility judgments of people with varying motor abilities due to spinal cord injury.

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Acute Positive Effects of Exercise on Center-of-Pressure Fluctuations During Quiet Standing in Middle-Aged and Elderly Women.

scientific article published in January 2016

Acute effects of exercise on posture in arthritic patients

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Acute effects of whole body vibration during passive standing on soleus H-reflex in subjects with and without spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Alternate muscle activity observed between knee extensor synergists during low-level sustained contractions

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Ankle muscle co-contractions during quiet standing are associated with decreased postural steadiness in the elderly.

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

Anti-phase action between the angular accelerations of trunk and leg is reduced in the elderly.

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Anticipation of direction and time of perturbation modulates the onset latency of trunk muscle responses during sitting perturbations

scientific article published on 18 December 2015

Arm movement improves performance in clinical balance and mobility tests

scientific article published on 11 January 2011

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scientific article published on 19 May 2015

Balance control under different passive contributions of the ankle extensors: quiet standing on inclined surfaces

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Cardiovascular response of individuals with spinal cord injury to dynamic functional electrical stimulation under orthostatic stress

scientific article published on 09 August 2012

Cardiovascular response to functional electrical stimulation and dynamic tilt table therapy to improve orthostatic tolerance.

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Center of pressure velocity reflects body acceleration rather than body velocity during quiet standing.

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Closed-loop control of functional electrical stimulation-assisted arm-free standing in individuals with spinal cord injury: a feasibility study.

scientific article published on January 2009

Comparison of multidirectional seated postural stability between individuals with spinal cord injury and able-bodied individuals

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Controlling balance during quiet standing: proportional and derivative controller generates preceding motor command to body sway position observed in experiments

scientific article published on 01 February 2006

Decrease in required coefficient of friction due to smaller lean angle during turning in older adults

scientific article published on 03 May 2018

Difference in aftereffects following prolonged Achilles tendon vibration on muscle activity during maximal voluntary contraction among plantar flexor synergists

scientific article published on 03 December 2004

Differences among lower leg muscles in long-term activity during ambulatory condition without any moderate to high intensity exercise

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

Dynamic Fluctuation of Truncal Shift Parameters During Quiet Standing In Healthy Young Individuals.

scientific article published on 5 December 2017

Dynamic Increase in Corticomuscular Coherence during Bilateral, Cyclical Ankle Movements

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Dynamic cortical participation during bilateral, cyclical ankle movements: Effects of Parkinson's disease.

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Dynamic cortical participation during bilateral, cyclical ankle movements: effects of aging

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Effect of whole-body vibration on lower-limb EMG activity in subjects with and without spinal cord injury

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Effects of 20-day bed rest with and without strength training on postural sway during quiet standing

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Effects of age-related changes in step length and step width on the required coefficient of friction during straight walking

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Effects of balance training with visual feedback during mechanically unperturbed standing on postural corrective responses

scientific article published on 25 November 2011

Effects of upper limb positions and weight support roles on quasi-static seated postural stability in individuals with spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 4 July 2012

Effects of water immersion on gait initiation: part II of a case series after incomplete spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Effects of water immersion on quasi-static standing exploring center of pressure sway and trunk acceleration: a case series after incomplete spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 17 January 2019

Epidemiology of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance in salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium isolates from food-producing animals in Japan.

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Evaluating the efficacy of functional electrical stimulation therapy assisted walking after chronic motor incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on bone biomarkers and bone strength

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Evaluation of postural control in quiet standing using center of mass acceleration: comparison among the young, the elderly, and people with stroke

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Failure of spinal paired associative stimulation to induce neuroplasticity in the human corticospinal tract

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Fatigue reduction during aggregated and distributed sequential stimulation.

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Force fluctuations are modulated by alternate muscle activity of knee extensor synergists during low-level sustained contraction

scientific article published on 18 June 2004

Fractal correlation of initial trajectory dynamics vanishes at the movement end point in human rapid goal-directed movements

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Heel strike detection using split force-plate treadmill

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Identification of ankle plantar-flexors dynamics in response to electrical stimulation.

scientific article published on 17 August 2016

Importance of body sway velocity information in controlling ankle extensor activities during quiet stance

scientific article published on 27 August 2003

Instability prediction by monitoring center of pressure during standing.

scientific article published in January 2006

Intensive Balance Training for Adults With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injuries: Protocol for an Assessor-Blinded Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Inverted Pendulum Standing Apparatus for Investigating Closed-Loop Control of Ankle Joint Muscle Contractions during Functional Electrical Stimulation

scientific article published on 28 October 2014

Kinematic error magnitude in the single-mass inverted pendulum model of human standing posture

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Kinematics-based prediction of trunk muscle activity in response to multi-directional perturbations during sitting

scientific article published on 09 June 2018

Laser-detected lateral muscle displacement is correlated with force fluctuations during voluntary contractions in humans.

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Local blood circulation among knee extensor synergists in relation to alternate muscle activity during low-level sustained contraction

scientific article published on 28 February 2003

Low-intensity functional electrical stimulation can increase multidirectional trunk stiffness in able-bodied individuals during sitting.

scientific article published on 9 June 2015

Method to Reduce Muscle Fatigue During Transcutaneous Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation in Major Knee and Ankle Muscle Groups

scientific article published on 30 December 2014

Misalignment of the Desired and Measured Center of Pressure Describes Falls Caused by Slip during Turning

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Modulation between bilateral legs and within unilateral muscle synergists of postural muscle activity changes with development and aging

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Multidirectional quantification of trunk stiffness and damping during unloaded natural sitting

scientific article published on 16 November 2013

Multisegment Kinematics of the Spinal Column: Soft Tissue Artifacts Assessment

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Muscle activity, cross-sectional area, and density following passive standing and whole body vibration: A case series

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Muscle synergies reveal impaired trunk muscle coordination strategies in individuals with thoracic spinal cord injury

scientific article published in July 2017

Neural-mechanical feedback control scheme generates physiological ankle torque fluctuation during quiet stance

scientific article published on 12 January 2010

Neuromusculoskeletal torque-generation process has a large destabilizing effect on the control mechanism of quiet standing.

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PID Controller Design for FES Applied to Ankle Muscles in Neuroprosthesis for Standing Balance

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Passive knee movement-induced modulation of the soleus H-reflex and alteration in the fascicle length of the medial gastrocnemius muscle in humans.

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Phylogenetic groups and cephalosporin resistance genes of Escherichia coli from diseased food-producing animals in Japan.

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Positive effect of balance training with visual feedback on standing balance abilities in people with incomplete spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Postural reactions of the trunk muscles to multi-directional perturbations in sitting

scientific article published on 18 January 2009

Postural sway during quiet standing is related to physiological tremor and muscle volume in young and elderly adults

scientific article published on August 19, 2011

Posturographic measures in healthy young adults during quiet sitting in comparison with quiet standing.

scientific article published on November 2009

Pulse wave velocity for assessment of arterial stiffness among people with spinal cord injury: a pilot study.

scientific article published on January 2009

Quantifying balance control after spinal cord injury: Reliability and validity of the mini-BESTest

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Randomized trial of functional electrical stimulation therapy for walking in incomplete spinal cord injury: effects on quality of life and community participation.

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Reactive stepping after a forward fall in people living with incomplete spinal cord injury or disease

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Reciprocal angular acceleration of the ankle and hip joints during quiet standing in humans

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Reducing muscle fatigue during transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation by spatially and sequentially distributing electrical stimulation sources.

scientific article published on 05 January 2014

Relation between postural stability and plantar flexors muscle volume in young males

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Relationship between margin of stability and deviations in spatiotemporal gait features in healthy young adults

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Required muscle mass for preventing lifestyle-related diseases in Japanese women

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Responses of the trunk to multidirectional perturbations during unsupported sitting in normal adults

scientific article published on 01 August 2010

Sensitivity of intersegmental angles of the spinal column to errors due to marker misplacement.

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Smaller sway size during quiet standing is associated with longer preceding time of motor command to body sway.

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Spatially distributed sequential stimulation reduces fatigue in paralyzed triceps surae muscles: a case study

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Spatially distributed sequential stimulation reduces muscle fatigue during neuromuscular electrical stimulation.

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Spinal cord stimulation for gait impairment in spinocerebellar ataxia 7

scientific article published on 05 January 2014

Step Prediction During Perturbed Standing Using Center Of Pressure Measurements.

scientific article published on 18 April 2007

Test–retest reliability of pulse wave velocity in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

The influence of the aquatic environment on the control of postural sway.

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

The measurement properties of the Lean-and-Release test in people with incomplete spinal cord injury or disease

scientific article published on 02 December 2020

Trunk control impairment is responsible for postural instability during quiet sitting in individuals with cervical spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Trunk muscle co-activation using functional electrical stimulation modifies center of pressure fluctuations during quiet sitting by increasing trunk stiffness.

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Unperceivable noise to active light touch effects on fast postural sway

scientific article published on 29 October 2011

Unveiling visuomotor control of bipedal stance, step by step.

scientific article published in October 2016

Variability of ground reaction forces during treadmill walking

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Variability of vibrations produced by commercial whole-body vibration platforms.

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Video game-based neuromuscular electrical stimulation system for calf muscle training: a case study.

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Visualization of Trunk Muscle Synergies During Sitting Perturbations Using Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)

scientific article published on June 21, 2012

What triggers the continuous muscle activity during upright standing?

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Wheelchair Neuroprosthesis for Improving Dynamic Trunk Stability

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Which trunk inclination directions best predict multidirectional-seated limits of stability among individuals with spinal cord injury?

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Whole‐Body Vibration During Passive Standing in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury: Effects of Plate Choice, Frequency, Amplitude, and Subject's Posture on Vibration Propagation

scientific article published on October 24, 2012