Dr. Griffin is an associate professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. Her expertise is in neuromuscular physiology and spinal cord injury research. Current studies involve investigating muscular control of the lower back and the knee in healthy and clinical populations and nutritional and functional electrical stimulation intervention for acute spinal cord injury.
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, 1999
Spinal cord Injury, neuromuscular fatigue, functional electrical stimulation, low back pain, central nervous system control of muscle force, single motor unit recruitment and firing patterns
Member, Editorial Board, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Member, Society for Neuroscience
Member, American College of Sports Education
Doucet, BB., Mettler, JA., Griffin, L. & Spirduso, WW. (2016). Force Accuracy during Ramp Contractions of the Upper and Lower Extremity: The After-Peak Reduction. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 123, 244–257. (View)
Tenan, MS., Hackney, A. & Griffin, L. (2016). Maximal Force and Endurance Variability Changes Across the Menstrual Cycle. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 116, 153–60. (View)
Mettler, L. & Griffin, L. (2016). Muscular Endurance Training and Motor Unit Firing Patterns during Fatigue. Experimental Brain Research(234), 267–276. (View)
Tenan, M., Hackney, A. & Griffin, L. (2015). Entrainment of Motor Activity in the Vastus Medialis Complex is Different between the Sexes. Muscle and Nerve. (View)
Tenan, M., Peng, Y-L., Hackney, A. & Griffin, L. (2013). Differential activation of the vastus medialis and vastus medialis oblique across the menstrual cycle. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 45(11), 1251–2157. (View)
Tenan, M., Peng, Y., Hackney, A. & Griffin, L. (2013). Menstrual Cycle mediates Vastus Medialis and Vastus Medialis Oblique Muscle Activity. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise(45), 2151–2157. (View)
Doucet, B. & Griffin, L. (2012). Variable stimulation patterns in younger and older thenar muscle. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 222(2), 215–222. (View)
Mettler, J. & Griffin, L. (2012). Post-activation Potentiation and Muscular Endurance Training. Muscle and Nerve, 45(3), 416–425. (View)
Decker, M., Griffin, L., Abraham, L. & Brandt, L. (2010). Alternating stimulation of synergistic muscles during functional electrical stimulation cycling improves endurance in persons with spinal cord injury. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 20(6), 1163–1169. (View)
Griffin, L., Decker, M., Hwang, J., Kitchen, K. & Ivy, J. (2009). Functional electrical stimulation cycling improves body composition, metabolic and neural factors in persons with spinal cord injury. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology(19), 614–622. (View)
Tenan, M., Marti, C. & Griffin, L. (n.d.). Motor unit discharge rate is correlated within individuals: A case for multilevel model statistical analysis. (View)
Dynamic Quadriceps Muscle Stimulation for Treatment of Patellofemoral Pain
Funded by Articulate Labs
Differential Activation of the Vastus Medialis and the Vastus Medialis Oblique in Individuals with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, Elsevier (2013)
Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Faculty Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education (2010 - 2012)
Lee Hage Jamail Regeents Chair in Education Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Education (2006 - 2010)
