Dr. Masahiro Fujimoto, Assistant Professor in the College of Sport and Health Science, published a research paper in the Journal of Biomechanics, co-authored with Dr. Woei-Nan Bair and Dr. Mark Rogers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. This paper showed that older adult fallers had reduced functional limits of dynamic stability in the medio-lateral direction, which could be a cause for a directional vulnerability to falling sideways among older individuals.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021929015000913

Fujimoto M, Bair W-N, and Rogers MW. (2015). Center of pressure control for balance maintenance during lateral wait-pull perturbations in older adults. Journal of Biomechanics, 48(6): 963-968.

 Mr. Shinya Watanabe, is Graduate Student in Faculty of Sports and Health Science, his research manuscript was accepted and published in FASEB J, which collaborated with Professor Dr. Motoyuki Iemitsu, Dr. Satoshi Fujita, Dr. Kiyoshi Sanada and Dr. Takafumi Hamaoka. The study revealed that increasing in serum C1q level with aging related to reduction of muscle mass. Moreover, in the elderly, resistance training-induced muscle hypertrophy was related to serum C1q level. These findings indicate that C1q may be used as novel biomarker of sarcopenia.

Watanabe S, Sato K, Hasegawa N, Kurihara T, Matsutani K, Sanada K, Hamaoka T, Fujita S, Iemitsu M.: Serum C1q as a novel biomarker of sarcopenia in older adults. (2015). FASEB J, 29(3):1003-1010.