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Muscle Stiffness, Not Force, Limits Human Force Production

2025-09-09

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Humans have a remarkable ability to manage physical interaction despite a tremendously complex musculoskeletal system, comparatively slow muscles and slow neural communication. Most physical interaction tasks require force generation, and that can compromise stability. To ensure stability, muscles are required to produce a certain mechanical impedance (especially stiffness and damping). In this work we investigate...

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Literature Corpus work: 83863b1c-ede3-58a6-8a11-dff06a0f9f02
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.03.673119

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