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Richard L. Lieber is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in biomedical engineering, molecular biology, surgery, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

Their work covers a variety of topics within muscle physiology and movement disorders. Major research themes include muscle activation and electromyography studies, muscle physiology and disorders, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, sports injuries and prevention, and nerve injury and rehabilitation.

Richard L. Lieber has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Non-linear Scaling of Passive Mechanical Properties in Fibers, Bundles, Fascicles and Whole Rabbit Muscles (2020, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • Can we just forget about pennation angle? (2022, Journal of Biomechanics)
  • Inpatient stroke rehabilitation: prediction of clinical outcomes using a machine-learning approach (2020, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation)
  • Traumatic muscle injury (2023, Nature Reviews Disease Primers)
  • Biochemical and structural basis of the passive mechanical properties of whole skeletal muscle (2021, The Journal of Physiology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard L. Lieber include Finland, Benjamin I. Binder-Markey, Kenton R. Kaufman, José A. L. Calbet, and Robert Boushel.

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Physiology
  • Frontiers in Physiology

Best Publications

  • Functional and clinical significance of skeletal muscle architecture.

    Richard L. Lieber;Jan Fridén

  • Structure and function of the skeletal muscle extracellular matrix

    Allison R. Gillies;Richard L. Lieber

  • A Model of the Lower Limb for Analysis of Human Movement

    Edith M. Arnold;Samuel R. Ward;Richard L. Lieber;Scott L. Delp

  • Are Current Measurements of Lower Extremity Muscle Architecture Accurate

    Samuel R. Ward;Carolyn M. Eng;Laura H. Smallwood;Richard L. Lieber

  • Skeletal Muscle Structure, Function, and Plasticity

    Richard L. Lieber

  • Relationship between muscle fiber types and sizes and muscle architectural properties in the mouse hindlimb

    Thomas J. Burkholder;Brian Fingado;Stephanie Baron;Richard L. Lieber

  • Eccentric exercise-induced injuries to contractile and cytoskeletal muscle fibre components.

    J. Fridén;R. L. Lieber

  • Muscle damage is not a function of muscle force but active muscle strain

    R. L. Lieber;J. Friden

  • Structural and mechanical basis of exercise-induced muscle injury.

    Jan Friden;Jan Friden;Richard L. Lieber;Richard L. Lieber

  • Structural and functional changes in spastic skeletal muscle

    Richard L. Lieber;Suzanne Steinman;Ilona A. Barash;Hank Chambers

  • Spastic muscle cells are shorter and stiffer than normal cells

    Jan Fridén;Richard L. Lieber

  • Hamstring contractures in children with spastic cerebral palsy result from a stiffer extracellular matrix and increased in vivo sarcomere length

    Lucas R. Smith;Ki S. Lee;Samuel R. Ward;Henry G. Chambers

  • Architecture of selected muscles of the arm and forearm: anatomy and implications for tendon transfer.

    Richard L. Lieber;Mark D. Jacobson;Babak M. Fazeli;Reid A. Abrams

  • Muscle cytoskeletal disruption occurs within the first 15 min of cyclic eccentric contraction

    Richard L. Lieber;Lars Eric Thornell;Jan Fridén

  • Corrective shoes and inserts as treatment for flexible flatfoot in infants and children

    Dennis R. Wenger;Donald Mauldin;Gail Speck;Dean Morgan

  • Skeletal Muscle Structure, Function, and Plasticity: The Physiological Basis of Rehabilitation

    Richard L. Lieber

  • Muscle damage induced by eccentric contractions of 25% strain

    R. L. Lieber;T. M. Woodburn;J. Friden

  • Sarcomere length operating range of vertebrate muscles during movement

    Thomas J. Burkholder;Richard L. Lieber

  • Skeletal Muscle Structure and Function: Implications for Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine

    Richard L. Lieber

  • Architectural analysis and intraoperative measurements demonstrate the unique design of the multifidus muscle for lumbar spine stability.

    Samuel R Ward;Choll W Kim;Carolyn M Eng;Lionel J Gottschalk

Frequent Co-Authors

Ju Chen
Ju Chen University of California, San Diego
Alan R. Hargens
Alan R. Hargens University of California, San Diego
Eckhard Wolf
Eckhard Wolf Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Anna M. Wobus
Anna M. Wobus Leibniz Association
Brian K. Hall
Brian K. Hall Dalhousie University
Walter R. Frontera
Walter R. Frontera University of Puerto Rico
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Alan M. Jette
Alan M. Jette MGH Institute of Health Professions
Allen F. Ryan
Allen F. Ryan University of California, San Diego
James F. Malec
James F. Malec Indiana University

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