Vrunda Patel presents at Fall 2025 CSM Poster Session

2025-12-03
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Vrunda Patel presented her research poster, Computational Approach to Tendon Healing: Analyzing Impact on Mobility, at the Fall 2025 CSM Celebrates Student Research Poster Session. Her work uses a computational muscle-tendon model of the gastrocnemius and Achilles tendon to investigate how structural changes during tendon healing — including alterations to the extracellular matrix and fiber diameter distribution — affect overall tendon and muscle function. Comparing simulations of injured and uninjured Achilles tendons, Patel found that muscles connected to injured tendons must shorten more, produce more work, and experience higher power output, offering new insight into how the healing process influences mobility and musculoskeletal recovery.