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Gregory S. Sawicki
Researcher at Boston Children's Hospital
Publications - 280
Citations - 12704
Gregory S. Sawicki is an academic researcher from Boston Children's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cystic fibrosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 240 publications receiving 9885 citations. Previous affiliations of Gregory S. Sawicki include University of Massachusetts Medical School & Harvard University.
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Reducing the energy cost of human walking using an unpowered exoskeleton
TL;DR: This work built a lightweight elastic device that acts in parallel with the user's calf muscles, off-loading muscle force and thereby reducing the metabolic energy consumed in contractions, and shows that the metabolic rate of human walking can be reduced by an unpowered ankle exoskeleton.
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Measuring the Transition Readiness of Youth with Special Healthcare Needs: Validation of the TRAQ—Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire
Gregory S. Sawicki,Katryne Lukens-Bull,Xiaoping Yin,Nathan Demars,I-Chan Huang,William C. Livingood,John Reiss,Darien Wood +7 more
TL;DR: The initial validation study suggests the TRAQ is a useful tool to assess transition readiness in YSHCN and to guide educational interventions by providers to support transition.
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High treatment burden in adults with cystic fibrosis: challenges to disease self-management.
TL;DR: The level of daily treatment activity is high for CF adults regardless of age or disease severity, and increasing number of nebulized therapies and increased ACT time, but not gender, age, or pulmonary function, are associated with higher perceived treatment burden.
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The mechanics and energetics of human walking and running: a joint level perspective
TL;DR: Changing from walking to running resulted in a significant shift in power production from the hip to the ankle which may explain the higher efficiency of running at speeds above 2.0 m s−1 and shed light on a potential mechanism behind the walk–run transition.
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An improved powered ankle-foot orthosis using proportional myoelectric control.
TL;DR: The current design improves upon a previous prototype by being easier to don and doff and simpler to use and the novel controller allows naive wearers to quickly adapt to the orthosis without artificial muscle co-contraction.