Jason Franz
@FranzBiomech
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Professor @JointBME @UNC @NCState. Director of the UNC Chapel Hill Applied Biomechanics Laboratory @franzbiomech.bsky.social
Joined July 2017
You may or may not be familiar with our work. I am a biomechanist, and my lab @jointbme uses a mechanisms-based approach to engineer solutions to help people age gracefully ( https://t.co/lVuRjasLXm). We live at the interface of pain, performance, fatigue, and falls.
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This is my last message on this app. I'm deleting my account. Find me @franzbiomech.bsky.social.
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✨Keynote Speaker Announcement✨ We are thrilled to welcome Prof. Friedl De Groote (@KU_Leuven) as our keynote speaker at ISB2025! 📅Deadline for Early bird registration – April 10th https://t.co/lGVrNrCrK9
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Plantar massage or ankle mobilization do not alter gait biomechanics in those with chronic ankle instability: a randomized controlled trial @jmmtonline @BPietrosimone @BlackburnTroy @FranzBiomech @ea_wikstrom @AnkleConsortium
https://t.co/HBvF8rvavQ
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The findings suggest that two-week joint mobilization and plantar massage interventions do not significantly alter gait biomechanics in individuals with CAI. These results support the need for...
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This International Day of Women and Girls in Science I am contributing to knowledge and supporting those around me. Grateful for @IntWomenBiomech for making sure there are familiar faces at every conference and event, no matter where I am in the world
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Come check us out at #aptacsm. VETTA Solutions is here and ready to talk with you about how you can enhance joint rehabilitation. Booth #3232 with @BPietrosimone!! https://t.co/r2nzYlx3Nq
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Love this. Thanks for using our photo!!
.@NCStateEngr alum Ross W. Lampe Jr. has committed $20 million to the @jointbme at NC State and @UNC in support of its mission to unite engineering and medicine. The department will be renamed the Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering. 👏 https://t.co/dqBV6qlpFX
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In honor of our campuses wellness days this week, be sure to check out the BME Grad Podcast episode on Wellness for Biomedical Engineers with @FranzBiomech, Joint BME’s Well-being Director 🎙️ Listen to the episode here: https://t.co/AtfCPZ3Zui
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BIG news here!!! Great work and congratulations to everyone at the department and university levels for making this a reality!! https://t.co/evdlIpt1Hh
uncnews.unc.edu
Ross W. Lampe Jr. has committed a $20 million investment to the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill and NCSU.
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check out our new Biomech-omic article summary, courtesy of @clong_biomech, study led by Logan White in collab w/ Philippe Malcolm and @FranzBiomech . Link to the full paper:
This is long overdue, but I am happy to share my next Biomech-omic! I was experimenting with creating a comic-style graphical abstract (hence the horizontal formatting) for a paper that was recently published! Learn more at https://t.co/Qbg282omlC.
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Congratulations to our collaborators and lab members on receipt of our new $3M NIH R01 Grant titled "Discovering the Mechanisms Linking Gait to Osteoarthritis Onset and Progression" w/ @BPietrosimone
@CLEAR_NCSU_UNC @jointbme @UNCEXSS @UNCTARC @UNC_SMI
https://t.co/e6T2GNm6bH
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We have a week left here before we review applications! Looking for individuals with a background in biplane video x-ray in biomechanics. More information: https://t.co/KPEZG8kObU
We will be accepting applications for this position until February 3rd. Would love to see yours!
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More time to get your best work together, @biomechanists.
Important Announcement! The deadline for abstract submissions to the ISB Congress 2025 has been extended to February 14th, 2025! Spread the word—and let’s get those abstracts submitted! https://t.co/QTADNlzxWa
@ISBiomechanics
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These results should build confidence that interventions designed to improve plantar sensation for older adults, possibly through insoles or footwear modifications, could be critical for reducing gait-related falls in at-risk populations.
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Told you we had a lot coming! Really proud of this one: "Plantar sensation associates with gait instability in older adults" now available in J NeuroEngr Rehab with @Andy_Shelt @allenjl12 @KotaZTakahashi. https://t.co/hGzobRXYOL
link.springer.com
Background Advanced age brings a loss of plantar sensation, represented, for example, as higher sensation thresholds in standardized testing. This is thought to contribute to an increased risk of...
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🚨 Only 10 days left to submit your abstract for #ISB2025! Deadline: January 31st. Spread the word in your networks, universities, and labs—we’re excited to see your high-quality work! 📢 Registration is now OPEN:
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Fun with ultrasound! The latest from @emkeich "Anticipation augments distal leg muscle neuromechanics before, during, and after treadmill-induced perturbations applied during walking". Out now in @JBiomech with help from @allenjl12 and @jrcrenshaw. https://t.co/ftq96jNai1
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We have a collection of new papers on aging and balance coming out soon! Here's the first: "Older adults exhibit lesser smoothness despite increased caution than younger adults when navigating turns during walking" Image courtesy of ChatGPT. https://t.co/aVjjjGAuvD
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Please share. We have an opening for a postdoc in my lab @UNC @jointbme interested in sensory neuroprosthetics research in animals. Neuropixels, high-density stim, brain-spine interface, etc. https://t.co/eufnAdYU5G
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We will be accepting applications for this position until February 3rd. Would love to see yours!
We reposted this position for a Research Scientist @jointbme. Experience in Biplane Videoradiography for Orthopaedic Biomechanics? We want to talk to you! @AmSocBiomech @ORSsociety @asme_bed @AcsmBig @ISBiomechanics @IntWomenBiomech Spread the word! https://t.co/KPEZG8kObU
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Latest collaborative paper available now in @JApplBiomech: "The Effect of Shoe Insole Stiffness Modifications on Walking Performance in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study". So much more to come!! https://t.co/iA037t3AvR
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Shoes or insoles embedded with carbon fiber materials to increase longitudinal stiffness have been shown to enhance running and walking performance in elite runners, and younger adults, respectively....
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