Nonlinear Elasticity of the ECM Fibers Facilitates Efficient Intercellular Communication

Ran Sopher, Hanan Tokash, Sari Natan, +4

Biophysical Journal

MechanobiologyNonlinear ElasticityEngineeringMultimaterial FiberFiber Structure +7

Total ankle replacement design and positioning affect implant-bone micromotion and bone strains

Ran Sopher, Andrew A. Amis, James D. Calder, +1

Medical Engineering & Physics

Exposure to internal muscle tissue loads under the ischial tuberosities during sitting is elevated at abnormally high or low body mass indices

Ran Sopher, Jane Nixon, Claudia Gorecki, +1

Journal of Biomechanics

Ischial TuberositiesKinesiologyBody CompositionMuscle InjuryApplied Physiology +5

The influence of foot posture, support stiffness, heel pad loading and tissue mechanical properties on biomechanical factors associated with a risk of heel ulceration

Ran Sopher, Jane Nixon, Elizabeth McGinnis, +1

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials

MechanobiologyMedicineBiomechanicsHeel Pad LoadingLower Extremity Wound +12

The infrapatellar fat pad is a dynamic and mobile structure, which deforms during knee motion, and has proximal extensions which wrap around the patella

Joanna M. Stephen, Ran Sopher, Sebastian Tullie, +3

Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy

Effects of skin wrinkles, age and wetness on mechanical loads in the stratum corneum as related to skin lesions

Ran Sopher, Amit Gefen

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

OphthalmologyStratum CorneumBiomechanicsWound HealingDermatology +5

The influence of muscle pennation angle and cross-sectional area on contact forces in the ankle joint

Ran Sopher, Andrew A. Amis, D. Ceri Davies, +1

The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design

Lower Limb TraumaCluster AnalysisOrthopedic BiomechanicsOrthopaedic SurgeryMuscle Pennation Angle +17

Effects of Intramuscular Fat Infiltration, Scarring, and Spasticity on the Risk for Sitting-Acquired Deep Tissue Injury in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

Ran Sopher, Jane Nixon, Claudia Gorecki, +1

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Muscle TissueSpinal DisorderOrthopaedic SurgerySoft Tissue InjuryKinesiology +16

Force chains in cell–cell mechanical communication

Amots Mann, Ran Sopher, Shahar Goren, +3

Journal of The Royal Society Interface

The correlation between upper extremity musculoskeletal symptoms and joint kinematics, playing habits and hand span during playing among piano students

Yael Kaufman-Cohen, Sigal Portnoy, Ran Sopher, +3

PLoS ONE