We're back - with our fearless leader, Dr. Martin Ferguson-Pell! Join us for an episode full of history, science, and...pee?! Dr. Ferguson-Pell is a co-Principal Investigator of the Rehab Robotics Lab and sat down with our host, Emily Armstrong, to talk career inspiration, how biomechanics has changed over time, and how his work has progressed with technology advances.

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And as always, if you're interested in learning more, check out some of these papers:

Shiferaw, W.S., Akalu, T.Y., Mulugeta, H. et al. The global burden of pressure ulcers among patients with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 21, 334 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03369-0

MacDuff, H., Armstrong, E., & Ferguson-Pell, M. (2022). Technologies measuring manual wheelchair propulsion metrics: a scoping review. Assistive Technology, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2022.2075488

L. Qi, S. Guan, L. Zhang, H. -L. Liu, C. -K. Sun and M. Ferguson-Pell, "The Effect of Fatigue on Wheelchair Users’ Upper Limb Muscle Coordination Patterns in Time-Frequency and Principal Component Analysis," in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 29, pp. 2096-2102, 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2021.3119359.

Sacco, I. C. N., Trombini-Souza, F., & Suda, E. Y. (2023). Impact of biomechanics on therapeutic interventions and rehabilitation for major chronic musculoskeletal conditions: A 50-year perspective. Journal of biomechanics, 154, 111604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111604