Dr. Eric Dugan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Kinesiology. Dr. Dugan’s research interests include: injury mechanisms and related preventative strategies, the effectiveness of clinical intervention strategies, the effects of fatigue, structural limitations, and load carriage on various aspects of human motion and performance, and the influence of both short-term and long-term exercise protocols on various biomechanical aspects of human health and performance.
Articles and Conference Proceedings
The Effects of Repetitive Drop Jumps on Impact Phase Joint Kinematics and Kinetics (with Joshua T. Weinhandl and Jeremy D. Smith), Journal of Applied Biomechanics (2011)
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of fatigue on lower extremity...
Balance, Balance Confidence, and Health-Related Quality of Life in Persons with Chronic Stroke After Body Weight-Supported Treadmill Training (with Stephanie A. Combs, Miranda Passmore, Cara Riesner, Dana Whipker, Elizabeth Yingling, and Amy B. Curtis), Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2010)
Objectives To examine changes in balance, balance confidence, and health-related quality of life immediately and...
An Integrated Modeling Method for Bone Strain Analysis (with Daniel Leib and He Wang), American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (2010)
Stress fracture is a common overuse injury experienced by participants of activities involving repetitive loading...
Load Carriage Increases Mechanical Loading Rates During Walking (with He Wang, Jeff Frame, Elicia Ozimek, Cara Reedstrom, and Daniel Leib), 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (2010)
Stress fracture is an overuse bone injury. It is a result of excessively repetitive loads...
The Effects of Whole Body Vibration on Bone Mineral Density for a Person With a Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Study (with Ronald Davis, Charlotte Sanborn, David Nichols, and David M. Bazett-Jones), Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly (2010)
Bone mineral density (BMD) loss is a medical concern for individuals with spinal cord injury...
Book Chapters
Presentations
A time-efficient method for analyzing bone strain in large subject pools (with Daniel Leib and He Wang), American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (2011)
Influences of Load Carriage and Fatigue on Lower Extremity Kinetics During Walking (with He Wang, Jeff Frame, Elicia Ozimek, Cara Reedstrom, and Daniel Leib), American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting (2011)
Differences in dominant and non-dominant plant leg kinetics and kinematics during soccer kicking (with Cassidy M. Berlin), Rocky Mountain Regional American Society of Biomechanics Meeting (2011)
Walk –Run Transition Speed and the Relevance of Loading, Muscular Fatigue, and Human Kinematics: A Comparison of Human Gait Patterns (with Callie E. Gunderson), Rocky Mountain Regional American Society of Biomechanics Meeting (2011)