Christopher J. Arellano

Current Position

• Post-doctoral Fellow
• Neurophysiology of Movement Laboratory
• Director: Roger M. Enoka, Ph.D.
• Project Title: Control strategies used by young and older adults when supporting an inertial load: implications for the energetic cost of antagonist coactivation
• Funding Source: University of Colorado "Integrative Physiology of Aging" Training Grant (T32)
• Period: 04/01/2012 - 04/01/2013

Research Interest

• Neurophysiology -

Locomotion -
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  Nonlinear Dynamics -

Education

• 1999-2003, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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  2005-2007, M.S., Biomechanics/Motor Control, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
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  2008-2012, Ph.D., Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Publications

• Arellano CJ & Kram R (2012). The energetic cost of maintaining lateral balance during human running. Journal of Applied Physiology. 112: 427-434.

Arellano CJ & Kram R (2011). The effects of step width and arm swing on energetic cost and lateral balance during running. Journal of Biomechanics. 44(7): 1291-1295.

Kram R, Arellano CJ, & Franz JR (2011). The metabolic cost of locomotion: muscle by muscle. Exercise and Sports Science Reviews. 39(2): 57-58.

Arellano CJ, Layne CS, O'Connor DP, & Kurz MJ (2009). The independent effect of added mass on the stability of the sagittal plane leg kinematics during steady-state human walking. Journal of Experimental Biology. 212(12): 1965-1970.

Arellano CJ, Layne CS, O'Connor DP, Scott-Pandorf M, & Kurz MJ (2009). Does load carrying influence sagittal plane locomotive stability? Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 41(3): 620-627.

Kurz MJ, Scott-Pandorf M, Arellano CJ, Olsen D, & Whittaker G (2008). The penguin waddling gait pattern has a more consistent step width than step length. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 252(2): 272-276.

Kurz MJ, Judkins TN, Arellano CJ, & Scott-Pandorf M (2008). A passive dynamic walking robot that has a deterministic nonlinear gait. Journal of Biomechanics. 41(6): 1310-1316.

Kurz MJ, Pothakos K, Jamaluddin S, Scott-Pandorf M, Arellano CJ, & Lau YS (2007). A chronic mouse model of Parkinson's disease has a reduced gait pattern certainty. Neuroscience Letters. 429(1): 39-42.