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About
Yasuji Harada is a leading researcher in veterinary biomechanics and surgical orthopaedics, with a particular focus on canine stifle (knee) joint function and stability. His work bridges mechanical engineering and veterinary medicine, exploring how joint geometry and loading conditions affect ligament health and surgical outcomes. Harada’s most-cited study, “Biomechanical Effects of Tibial Plateau Levelling Osteotomy on Joint Instability in Normal Canine Stifles” (2020, 15 citations), provides critical in vitro evidence on how TPLO—a common surgical procedure for cranial cruciate ligament rupture—alters joint mechanics. He further advanced this field by investigating how excessive tibial plateau angle and increased compressive loads elevate tensile forces in the cranial cruciate, medial collateral, and lateral collateral ligaments (2021, 8 citations), offering quantitative insights for surgical planning. In parallel, Harada has contributed to robotics, designing a robot leg with a variable reduction ratio crossed four-bar linkage mechanism (2019, 16 citations), addressing the trade-off between torque and backdrivability in legged locomotion. His work on passive tibio-femoral motion in Beagle cadavers (2019, 3 citations) also established baseline kinematic data for joint range of motion. With a total of over 40 citations across these key papers, Harada’s interdisciplinary research is shaping both veterinary surgical practice and bio-inspired robotic design.
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