Dr Patricio Pincheira Miranda
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Researcher biography
Patricio is a physiotherapist who is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Sensorimotor Performance and at the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury & Health. During his Masters, he focused on understanding individual leg muscle contributions to the cost of walking. During his doctoral studies, he studied the neuromechanical factors underlying exercise-induced muscle damage in the human gastrocnemius muscle. His current research focuses on understanding the structural and neural determinants of stress and strain in human muscle and on exploring new technologies to quantify muscle composition from ultrasound images.
Journal Articles
Pincheira, Patricio A., Mayfield, Dean L., Fox, Aaron S., Brown, Nicholas A. T., Carroll, Timothy J., Cresswell, Andrew G. and Lichtwark, Glen A. (2023). Increased muscle force does not induce greater stretch-induced damage to calf muscles during work-matched heel drop exercise. European Journal of Applied Physiology. doi: 10.1007/s00421-023-05188-2
De la Fuente, Carlos I., Weinstein, Alejandro, Neira, Alejandro, Valencia, Oscar, Cruz-Montecinos, Carlos, Silvestre, Rony, Pincheira, Patricio, Palma, Felipe and Carpes, Felipe P. (2022). Biased instantaneous regional muscle activation maps: embedded fuzzy topology and image features analysis. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 10 934041, 1-10. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2022.934041
Guzmán-Venegas, Rodrigo A., Palma-Traro, Felipe H., Valencia, Oscar D., Hudson, María José and Pincheira, Patricio A. (2022). Location In Vivo of the Innervation Zone in the Human Medial Gastrocnemius Using Imposed Contractions: A Comparison of the Usefulness of the M-Wave and H-Reflex. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 7 (4) 107, 107. doi: 10.3390/jfmk7040107
Martinez-Valdes, Eduardo, Negro, Francesco, Botter, Alberto, Pincheira, Patricio A., Cerone, Giacinto Luigi, Falla, Deborah, Lichtwark, Glen A. and Cresswell, Andrew G. (2022). Modulations in motor unit discharge are related to changes in fascicle length during isometric contractions. Journal of Applied Physiology, 133 (5), 1136-1148. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00758.2021
Pincheira, Patricio A., Riveros-Matthey, Cristian and Lichtwark, Glen A. (2022). Isometric fascicle behaviour of the biceps femoris long head muscle during Nordic hamstring exercise variations. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 25 (8), 684-689. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2022.05.002
Pincheira, Patricio A., Boswell, Melissa A., Franchi, Martino V., Delp, Scott L. and Lichtwark, Glen A. (2021). Biceps femoris long head sarcomere and fascicle length adaptations after 3 weeks of eccentric exercise training. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 11 (1), 43-49. doi: 10.1016/j.jshs.2021.09.002
Pincheira, Patricio A., Hoffman, Ben W., Cresswell, Andrew G., Carroll, Timothy J., Brown, Nicholas A. T. and Lichtwark, Glen A. (2021). Cyclic eccentric stretching induces more damage and improved subsequent protection than stretched isometric contractions in the lower limb. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 121 (12), 3349-3360. doi: 10.1007/s00421-021-04787-1
Pincheira, Patricio A., Martinez‐Valdes, Eduardo, Guzman‐Venegas, Rodrigo, Falla, Deborah, Garrido, Marta I., Cresswell, Andrew G. and Lichtwark, Glen A. (2020). Regional changes in muscle activity do not underlie the repeated bout effect in the human gastrocnemius muscle. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 31 (4) sms.13912, 799-812. doi: 10.1111/sms.13912
Pincheira, Patricio A., Martinez-Valdes, Eduardo, De la Fuente, Carlos, Palma, Felipe, Valencia, Oscar, Redenz, Gunther and Guzman-Venegas, Rodrigo (2020). Quantifying topographical changes in muscle activation: a statistical parametric mapping approach. Proceedings, 49 (1), 1-6. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2020049071
Pincheira, Patricio A., De La Maza, Eduardo, Silvestre, Rony, Guzmán-Venegas, Rodrigo and Becerra, Manuel (2019). Comparison of total hip arthroplasty surgical approaches by Statistical Parametric Mapping. Clinical Biomechanics, 62, 7-14. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2018.12.024
San Martín-Mohr, Cristóbal, Cristi-Sánchez, Iver, Pincheira, Patricio A., Reyes, Alvaro, Berral, Francisco José and Oyarzo, Claudio (2018). Knee sensorimotor control following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A comparison between reconstruction techniques. PloS One, 13 (11) e0205658, e0205658. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205658
Pincheira, P. A., Hoffman, B. W., Cresswell, A. G., Carroll, T. J., Brown, N. A. T. and Lichtwark, G. A. (2018). The repeated bout effect can occur without mechanical and neuromuscular changes after a bout of eccentric exercise. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 28 (10), 2123-2134. doi: 10.1111/sms.13222
Pincheira, Patricio A., Silvestre, Rony, Armijo-Olivo, Susan and Guzman-Venegas, Rodrigo (2018). Ankle perturbation generates bilateral alteration of knee muscle onset times after unilateral anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. PeerJ, 6 e5310, e5310. doi: 10.7717/peerj.5310
Pincheira, Patricio A., Stenroth, Lauri, Avela, Janne and Cronin, Neil J. (2017). Individual leg muscle contributions to the cost of walking: effects of age and walking speed. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 25 (2), 295-304. doi: 10.1123/japa.2015-0232
Thesis
Pincheira Miranda, Patricio Andres (2020). Exercise-induced muscle damage and the repeated bout effect in the human gastrocnemius muscle. PhD Thesis, Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/6318449
Data Collection
Pincheira, Patricio (2020). EMG and PPT maps as .nii images. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.721