What?
Human movement, performed with its usual smoothness and accurateness, demands the coordination of many muscles. Muscle coordination refers to how the muscles work together and can be considered in terms of both the relative timing and relative magnitude of their contractions. In this area we study how the muscles are coordinated during typical locomotion tasks (such as walking, Nordic walking, skiing), as well as during physical exercises typically adopted for the physical training (such as pull ups, leg presses, core exercises). With the means of high-density surface electromyography, we go even further by analyzing the behavior of the ultimate constituents of the neuromuscular systems, which are the motor units.
- Cugliari G, Boccia G, Core muscle activation in suspension training exercises, J Hum Kinet 2017, 6, 61-71 doi: 10.1515/hukin-2017-0023 – Q4 1.17
- Pellegrini B, Zoppirolli C, Boccia G, Bortolan L, Schena F. Cross-country skiing movement factorization to explore relationships between skiing economy and athletes’ skills. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2017 Jun 26. doi: 10.1111/sms.12938. – Q1 3.63
- Zoppirolli C, Boccia G, Bortolan L, Schena F, Pellegrini B. Functional significance of extent and timing of muscle activation during double poling on-snow with increasing speed, Eur J Appl Physiol. 2017 Aug 24. doi: 10.1007/s00421-017-3703 – Q2 2.40
- Boccia G, Zoppirolli C, Bortolan L, Schena F, Pellegrini B, Shared and task-specific muscle synergies of Nordic walking and conventional walking, Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2017, doi: 10.1111/sms.12992 – Q1 3.63
- Pellegrini B, Boccia G, Zoppirolli C, Rosa R, Stella F, Bortolan L, Rainoldi A, Schena F. Muscular and metabolic responses to different Nordic walking techniques, when style matters. PLoS One, 2018, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195438 – Q2 2.76
- Boccia G, Martinez-Valdes E, Negro F, Rainoldi A, Falla D. Motor unit discharge rate and the estimated synaptic input to the vasti muscles is higher in open compared to closed kinetic chain exercise, J Appl Physiol. 2019. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00310.2019 – Q1 3.14
Who?
NMF 