Jordan Cannon

Research interests

My research program aims to understand the relationships between muscle function and coordination, musculoskeletal system dynamics, and subject-specific characteristics; to elucidate how they interact to influence normal, pathological and high-performing musculoskeletal function. I am interested in questions geared towards understanding muscle function and coordination during whole-body movements, neuromuscular and morphological contributions to joint tissue injury mechanisms, and best strategies to optimize an individual’s movement for performance, injury prevention and rehabilitation. I seek to address these questions by integrating experimental testing and imaging with computational modelling and simulation approaches to enable analyses across multiple levels of the neuromusculoskeletal system.

Current areas of research focus include:

• Understanding the functional role of individual muscles, operating within a coordinated network of muscles, to control multi-joint movements in the context of task-specific dynamics.
• Investigating fundamental hip joint function and dysfunction related to the pathomechanics of femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS).

Graduate supervision and student opportunities

• Research volunteer
• Undergraduate thesis
• MSc thesis
• Coursework interns
• PhD thesis
• Postdoctoral fellowship

Please email me to discuss current available opportunities.

Graduate studies application details

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies

• Biomechanics
• Neuromuscular control
• Musculoskeletal modelling and simulation
• Finite element analysis
• Imaging

Education

BSc, Kinesiology, University of Waterloo

MSc, Kinesiology, University of Waterloo

PhD, Biokinesiology, University of Southern California

PDF, Integrative Anatomical Sciences, University of Southern California

Selected publications

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