New paper out on @openmindjournal.bsky.social * I propose balance is a core biophysical self-regulatory function, organisationally akin to thermo-regulation. Might seem radical off the bat, but by the end of the paper I hope you'll agree it seems pretty obvious. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

Read the latest developments in posture and gait research from our two 2025 early career award winners @chrismccrum.bsky.social and Benjamin Filtjens (not on bluesky). Great work, both! And proud to have you both within our society.

New article: "Perspectives on interdisciplinary posture and gait research from the ISPGR 2025 World Congress: where do we stand and what are the next steps?" in which Benjamin Filtjens and I share our reflections on this past @ispgr.bsky.social World Congress authors.elsevier.com/a/1m9It3RoQ8...

Pleased to share the next publication from our PhD candidate Meichan Zhu: "Validity of accelerometer-based analysis of step time and step time variability during treadmill walking in people with bilateral vestibulopathy" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can anyone point me to an explanation/justification why certain reporting guidelines need to be published in multiple journals simultaneously? I get annoyed by the practice every time I need to cite one. PS - the "need" to reach a wider audience is not relevant in the age of open access publications

New preprint from our PhD candidate Liset, describing results that guided key choices in our upcoming trial of fall-resisting skills training for older adults. One key finding: older adults' perceptions of their stability during perturbations does not align with expert observations!

Replicability and transparency in physical therapy research: Time to wake up! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Pleased to share the third publication from our PhD candidate Meichan Zhu's thesis: "Dynamic visual acuity in bilateral vestibulopathy and healthy age–sex-matched participants" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just over 1 week to go until the application deadline!

Looking for a PhD-student position? Eager to work with advanced rehabtech and scalable augmented-reality solutions for fall-risk assessment and treatment? Learn from a team of scientists, Strolll entrepreneurs & developers and clinicians? Love interacting with older adults in NL & BE? Please apply!

New job vacancy! Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social @ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

New job vacancy! Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social @ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

What a week it was at #ISPGR2025 last week! It was really special to have so many amazing colleagues productively interacting in our city (with encouragement from @melvynroerdink.bsky.social)! Thanks to all involved in the planning and organisation @ispgr.bsky.social and all who attended!

What a week it was at #ISPGR2025 last week! It was really special to have so many amazing colleagues productively interacting in our city (with encouragement from @melvynroerdink.bsky.social)! Thanks to all involved in the planning and organisation @ispgr.bsky.social and all who attended!

See you in Japan! #ISPGR2027

Another busy day for members of our group and collaborators @ispgr.bsky.social #ISPGR2025 Go and say hi!

Proud of colleague @chrismccrum.bsky.social for receiving the well-deserved #ISPGR2025 promising young scientist award! Looking forward to kick off a PhD project with him, Pieter Meyns, and @kennethmeijer.bsky.social in the fall on augmented reality fall-risk assessment and treatment with #Strolll

A busy day for our group! Come and chat! #ISPGR2025 @ispgr.bsky.social

Look out today @ispgr.bsky.social #ISPGR2025 for these presentations with members of our group!

And we’re off with #ISPGR2025 president @kim-delbaere.bsky.social opening a what promises to be exciting conference!

Meeting friends old and new on #ispgr2025. Hope to connect online as well! @ispgr.bsky.social

Pleased our research group could contribute in a small way (with 1 of 25 replication studies) to this monumental effort led by @jennymurphy2.bsky.social A very important project with huge implications both for researchers & practice in sports/exercise science! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pleased our research group could contribute in a small way (with 1 of 25 replication studies) to this monumental effort led by @jennymurphy2.bsky.social A very important project with huge implications both for researchers & practice in sports/exercise science! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pleasure to collaborate with fellow @jabjournal.bsky.social Associate Editors @chrismccrum.bsky.social and Tanvi Bhatt in writing "A 40-Year Contemporary Evolution of Gait and Posture Mechanics in the Journal of Applied Biomechanics". Now available open access: doi.org/10.1123/jab.....

1🧵: Through an in-depth analysis of 802 individuals, we found that women tend to have a slower progression of memory loss, sleep issues, walking difficulties, balance problems, and motor symptoms.

🧠 Parkinson’s: Not Just Frequency, But Progression Too Did you know that Parkinson's disease is 1.4 times more common in men than women? But that’s not the whole story—men also experience a faster worsening of symptoms compared to women.🧵

Had a great week in Trabzon, Turkey at #PhysAgeNet 2025! On Thursday, I presented the pilot study of our PhD candidate Liset van der Hulst on fall-resisting skills, followed by a trip to Sümela Monastery where we had some immediate practice!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Assessing gait variability concurrently with dynamic visual acuity on a treadmill in people with bilateral vestibulopathy

Really delighted to share the news that I have been awarded the ISPGR Promising Scientist Award! The ISPGR has been my scientific home since my PhD so it's very special to receive this recognition. Also a testament to my many excellent supervisors, collaborators and students over the years!

Registration for the ISPGR in Maastricht is open! Looking forward to seeing lots of great people there! mailchi.mp/ispgr.org/re...

🚀 Want the latest in biomechanics? 🚀 The Journal of Applied Biomechanics is now on Bluesky & LinkedIn! 📡📊 📢 Follow us for the latest updates, discussions, and breakthroughs in biomechanics! #Biomechanics

Pleased to have contributed to this new book published today with our chapter: "How Older Adults Can Avoid Falls via Proactive and Reactive Gait Adaptability: A Brief Introduction" The published chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... & the #openaccess preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Pleased to have contributed to this new book published today with our chapter: "How Older Adults Can Avoid Falls via Proactive and Reactive Gait Adaptability: A Brief Introduction" The published chapter: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... & the #openaccess preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Pleased to share our new preprint "The impact of perturbation intensity schedule on improvements in reactive balance control in young adults: an experimental study" together with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social #balance #stability #falls #openaccess 🧪

Pleased to share our new preprint "The impact of perturbation intensity schedule on improvements in reactive balance control in young adults: an experimental study" together with @avrilmansfield.bsky.social #balance #stability #falls #openaccess 🧪

Preprinted today 🎉 Our chapter: Participant identification, selection and recruitment of the upcoming #openaccess book: Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Science: An Open Access Primer from the Society for Transparency, Openness and Replication in Kinesiology sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...

Preprinted today 🎉 Our chapter: Participant identification, selection and recruitment of the upcoming #openaccess book: Research Methods in Sport and Exercise Science: An Open Access Primer from the Society for Transparency, Openness and Replication in Kinesiology sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...

Now published #openaccess and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #gait #vestibulopathy #openscience 🧪

Now published #openaccess and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #gait #vestibulopathy #openscience 🧪

Glad to report that the statement is back in the Guide for Authors after raising this with the Editor. It was removed by accident when Elsevier was updating the website. If you are reviewing for Gait & Posture, please ask authors to adhere to this!

On Monday at 16:00, Anne-Marie Hanff (double doctorate at Maastricht University & Luxembourg Institute of Health) will defend her thesis, titled: “A mixed-methods investigation of the trajectories of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson’s disease”.

You can find the individual articles in the thesis at the following links: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... link.springer.com/article/10.1... osf.io/preprints/os... osf.io/preprints/os... osf.io/preprints/os...

Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence in Maastricht at the Aula, or to follow it online here: www.youtube.com/@UMphddefense The pdf of the thesis can be downloaded here: cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/files/232951...

On Monday at 16:00, Anne-Marie Hanff (double doctorate at Maastricht University & Luxembourg Institute of Health) will defend her thesis, titled: “A mixed-methods investigation of the trajectories of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson’s disease”.

Good start to the year - Our paper "Assessing gait variability concurrently with dynamic visual acuity on a treadmill in people with bilateral vestibulopathy" (preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...) is accepted for publication at the Journal of Vestibular Research #openscience 🧪 #gait #vestibular

5 years to the day since my PhD defence and happy to say we are making progress on some of the topics I suggested for future research, some of which we submitted today to present at the ISPGR world congress here in Maastricht next June. How time flies! cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publicati...

Updated Aging Starter Pack!! People and labs interested in aging 😀 Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/5UXXaDA

Just published in Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls: About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative” Great work by Shawn to lead this discussion! Free to read here: www.jfsf.eu/Article.php?...

Just published in Journal of Frailty, Sarcopenia and Falls: About Falls Efficacy: A commentary on “World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative” Great work by Shawn to lead this discussion! Free to read here: www.jfsf.eu/Article.php?...

Our Sample Size Justifications in Gait & Posture paper (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) was cited in the paper below (ref22): "The number of normative subjects should ideally be at least 30 [1],[22], and the data can be stratified by age (in decades) and walking speed." However (see thread)