Thursday 24th of September 2026 (Liikunta building, room L302)
Session 1: Dynamics of human movement (Chair: Prof. Neil Cronin)
9:50 – 10:00 Welcome/opening words (Prof. Neil Cronin, JYU)
10:00 – 10:30 Associate Professor Lauri Stenroth (University of Eastern Finland): From real-time estimates of musculoskeletal loading to personalized gait retraining
10:30 – 11:00 Dr. Juha-Pekka Kulmala (HUS, JAMK): Why We Walk the Way We Do — and Why Our Patients Don’t
11:00 – 11:45 Keynote 1 – Prof. Athanassios Bissas (University of Gloucestershire, UK): Biomechanical analysis of elite athletes in competition settings
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch (at own expense)
Session 2: Recent Advances in Musculoskeletal Imaging (Chair: Prof. Taija Finni)
13:00 – 13:15 PhD student Maria Sukanen (JYU): Title TBC
13:15 – 13:30 Dr. Raad Khair (JYU): A Novel Method to Assess Achilles Tendon Architecture In Vivo: USTIM
13:30 – 13:45 PhD student Yu Chou Lin (JYU): In-vivo identification of subject specific Achilles subtendon twist
13:45 – 14:15 Dr. Francesco Cenni (JYU): How do muscle-tendon properties affect movement in cerebral palsy?
14:15 – 14:45 Dr. Zhongzheng Wang (KTH, Stockholm): Using MRI to quantify muscle composition
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break
Session 3: From brain to muscle (Chair: Prof. Harri Piitulainen)
15:15 – 16:00 Keynote 2 – Prof. Tiina Parviainen (Department of Psychology, JYU): Title TBC
16:00 – 16:15 PhD student Anna Nätkynmäki (JYU): High-PAS mechanisms in spinal cord injury rehabilitation
16:15 – 16:30 PhD student Maija Siltala (JYU): Mapping proprioceptive representations of fingers with fMRI
16:30 – 16:45 PhD student Amin Chetouani (JYU & University of Vienna, Austria): Effects of an ischemic block of Ia-afferents on maximal contractions
16:45 – 17:00 Dr. Pedro Valadao (University of Graz, Austria): Muscle–tendon unit length–dependent neuromuscular regulation and its adaptation to training in cerebral palsy
17: 00 Closing words
Friday 25th of September 2026 (Viveca building)
9:00 – 11:30
Lab demonstrations, primarily for early career researchers, each lasting around 30 minutes. Participants rotate so they see all demos (pre-registration required):
1. What’s new in muscle-tendon imaging? (PhD student Maria Sukanen, Dr. Francesco Cenni, Dr. Raad Khair)
2. TMS and EEG during balance perturbation (PhD student Joona Juurakko, PhD student Samuli Nevanperä)
3. Citizen Science tools to study human movement (Prof. Neil Cronin, Dr. Matti Hyvärinen)
4. Multi-locus TMS for stimulating multiple brain regions (PhD student Vesa Onnia, PhD student Krista Vohlakari)
