Dr Yasuhide Yoshitake
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Publications
Journal Articles
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Kadi, Tomoya, Narita, Kenzo, Mankyu, Hirotoshi and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2025). Interpreting the projected frontal area in front crawl: determining the projected frontal area of each body segment. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 57 (2), 390-399. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003564
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Kadi, Tomoya, Mankyu, Hirotoshi and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2025). Stroke phase differences in the linear relationship between swimming velocity and vertical body position during front crawl. Sports Biomechanics, 24 (8), 2219-2232. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2024.2446180
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Mankyu, Hirotoshi, Kanehisa, Hiroaki and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2025). Lung Volume-Dependent Decrease in Projected Frontal Area Contributes to Reducing Active Drag in Front Crawl. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 57 (7), 1463-1471. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003683
Yamashita, Tomoko, Yoshitake, Yasuhide, Watanabe, Hironori, Washino, Sohei, Gamada, Kazuyoshi and Shinohara, Minoru (2025). Manual inter-structural release procedure can alter muscle shear modulus. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 57 (1) 3535, 44-53. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000003535
Watanabe, Hironori, Washino, Sohei, Ogoh, Shigehiko, Miyamoto, Naokazu, Kanehisa, Hiroaki, Kato, Hirokazu and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2024). Observing an expert's action swapped with an observer's face increases corticospinal excitability during combined action observation and motor imagery. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59 (5), 1016-1028. doi: 10.1111/ejn.16257
Watanabe, Hironori, Ogoh, Shigehiko, Miyamoto, Naokazu, Kanehisa, Hiroaki and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2023). Greater task difficulty during unilateral motor tasks changes intracortical inhibition and facilitation in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex in young men. Neuroscience Letters, 808 137293, 137293. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137293
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Mankyu, Hirotoshi and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2023). Determination of subset models for predicting vertical centre of mass position during front crawl in male swimmers. Journal of Sports Sciences, 41 (4), 372-380. doi: 10.1080/02640414.2023.2214393
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Mankyu, Hirotoshi, Ogita, Futoshi, Kanehisa, Hiroaki and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2022). Projected frontal area and its components during front crawl depend on lung volume. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 32 (12), 1724-1737. doi: 10.1111/sms.14231
Washino, Sohei, Yoshitake, Yasuhide, Mankyu, Hirotoshi and Murai, Akihiko (2022). Vertical body position during front crawl increases linearly with swimming velocity and the rate of its increase depends on individual swimmers. Sports Biomechanics, 23 (12), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2022.2071329
Washino, Sohei, Murai, Akihiko, Mankyu, Hirotoshi, Ogita, Futoshi, Kanehisa, Hiroaki and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2021). Lower lung-volume level induces lower vertical center of mass position and alters swimming kinematics during front-crawl swimming. Journal of Biomechanics, 121 110428, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110428
Suzuki, Ryosei, Kanehisa, Hiroaki, Washino, Sohei, Watanabe, Hironori, Shinohara, Minoru and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2021). Reconstruction of net force fluctuations from surface EMGs of multiple muscles in steady isometric plantarflexion. Experimental Brain Research, 239 (2), 601-612. doi: 10.1007/s00221-020-05987-5
Aeles, Jeroen, Kelly, Luke A., Yoshitake, Yasuhide and Cresswell, Andrew G. (2020). Fine-wire recordings of flexor hallucis brevis motor units up to maximal voluntary contraction reveal a flexible, non-rigid mechanism for force control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123 (5) jn.00023.2020, 1766-1774. doi: 10.1152/jn.00023.2020
Washino, Sohei, Mayfield, Dean L., Lichtwark, Glen A., Mankyu, Hirotoshi and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2019). Swimming performance is reduced by reflective markers intended for the analysis of swimming kinematics. Journal of Biomechanics, 91, 109-113. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.05.017
Washino, Sohei, Mankyu, Hirotoshi, Kanehisa, Hiroaki, Mayfield, Dean L., Cresswell, Andrew G. and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2019). Effects of inspiratory muscle strength and inspiratory resistance on neck inspiratory muscle activation during controlled inspirations. Experimental Physiology, 104 (4), 556-567. doi: 10.1113/EP087247
Watanabe, Hironori, Mizuguchi, Nobuaki, Mayfield, Dean Leonard and Yoshitake, Yasuhide (2018). Corticospinal excitability during actual and imaginary motor tasks of varied difficulty. Neuroscience, 391, 81-90. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.08.011
Yoshitake, Yasuhide, Uchida, Daiki, Hirata, Kosuke, Mayfield, Dean L. and Kanehisa, Hiroaki (2018). Mechanical interaction between neighboring muscles in human upper limb: evidence for epimuscular myofascial force transmission in humans. Journal of Biomechanics, 74, 150-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.04.036
Brown, Ellenor, Yoshitake, Yasuhide, Shinohara, Minoru and Ueda, Jun (2018). Automatic analysis of ultrasound shear-wave elastography in skeletal muscle without non-contractile tissue contamination. International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 2 (2), 209-225. doi: 10.1007/s41315-018-0050-1