At the beginning of the year, we recommend reading three important articles resulting from research conducted under the leadership of our scientists..
Tomasz Tasiemski (Department of Adapted Physical Activity) and a Polish-Swedish team investigated whether participation in peer-led active rehabilitation camps helped people with spinal cord injuries to achieve key health goals such as improving mobility, bowel and bladder control, sexual function and upper limb function. The study found that participation in such camps was associated with rapid and clinically significant improvements, particularly with regard to upper limb function, sexual functioning and wheelchair mobility. Journal of Clinical Medicine 2026, 15(1):176.
Jakub Kryściak (Department of Physiology) amd colleagues from Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia and the United Kingdom, investigated the relationship between aerobic capacity and running activity in professional soccer players during matches. They concluded that a higher level of aerobic capacity enables greater match activity, regardless of the player’s position, and that measuring aerobic capacity indicators is valuable for tailoring training and managing players’ roles on the pitch. Biology of Sport 2026, 43:213–225.
Bartosz Wasicki and his team in the Department of Neurobiology compared the rate of force development in motor units in cats and rats, which differ in terms of their contraction times and force properties. Their results showed that the rate of force development is primarily dependent on the properties of the myosin protein and that interspecies differences between slow (S-type) and fast-resistant (FR-type) motor units are biomechanical in nature. Journal of Biomechanics 2026, 194:113024.