Hafizur Rahman
NAME: Hafizur Rahman
CREDENTIALS: PhD
EMAIL: hafizur.rahman@utrgv.edu
OFFICE PHONE: 956-296-2035
PRIMARY ACADEMIC TITLE: Assistant Professor
Dr. Hafizur Rahman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Podiatric Medicine at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Before joining UTRGV, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Biomechanics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He received his PhD from the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MS in Ocean and Mechanical Engineering from Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Rahman is the director and Principal Investigator of the Applied Biomechanics of the Lower Extremity (ABLE) laboratory. His research aims to improve mobility, functional independence, walking performance and quality of life in patients with foot and ankle deformities by using advanced gait biomechanical analysis, finite element modeling, musculoskeletal modeling and simulation, and variability analysis.
His current research is supported by the University of Texas Rising STARs grant, UTRGV Faculty Seed Research Grant, and UTRGV Start-Up Grant. Previously, he received several grants as PI, including VA SPiRE Grant, NASA Nebraska Space Mini Grant, and a University of Nebraska Research Collaboration Initiative Grant.
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Gait Biomechanics
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Musculoskeletal Modeling and Simulation
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Assistive Device
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Rehabilitation
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Finite Element Analysis.
- Rahman H, Leutzinger T, Hassan M, Schieber M, Koutakis P, Fuglestad M, DeSpiegelaere H, Longo M, Malcolm P, Johanning J, Casale G, Pipinos I, Myers S. Peripheral artery disease causes consistent gait irregularities regardless of the location of leg claudication pain. Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 67, 2024.
- Sartawi M, Kohlmann J, Abdelsamie K, Rahman H*. Water-tight arthrotomy joint closure of modified intervastus approach in total knee arthroplasty. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(12), 2023. *Corresponding author
- Fallahtafti F, Salamifar Z, Hassan M, Rahman H, Pipinos I, Myers S. Joint angle variability is altered in patients with peripheral artery disease after six months of exercise intervention. Entropy, 24(10), 2022.
- Al-Ramini A, Hassan M, Fallahtafti F, Takallou M, Rahman H, Qolomany B, Pipinos I, Alsaleem F, Myers S. Machine learning-based peripheral artery disease identification using laboratory-based gait data. Sensors, 22(19), 2022.
- Leutzinger T, Koutakis P, Fuglestad M, Rahman H, DeSpiegelaere H, Hassan M, Schieber M, Johanning J, Stergiou N, Longo M, Casale G, Myers S, Pipinos I. Peripheral artery disease affects the function of the legs of claudicating patients in a diffuse manner irrespective of the segment of the arterial tree primarily involved. PLoS ONE, 17(7), 2022.
- Sartawi M, Rahman H*, Yousef I, Kohlmann J. The Kuwait Stitch: A novel surgical technique for surgical wound closures. Health Science Reports, 5:e667, 2022. *Corresponding author
- Rahman H*, Anderson C, Pipinos I, Johanning J, Casale G, DeSpiegelaere H, Hassan M, Myers S. Muscle forces and power are significantly reduced during walking in patients with peripheral artery disease. Journal of Biomechanics, 135, 2022. *Corresponding author
- Sartawi M, Rahman H*, Kohlmann J. Clinical and functional outcomes following modified intervastus approach. Techniques in Orthopaedics, 37(3), 2022. *Corresponding author
- Sartawi M, Rahman H*, Kohlmann J. Medial tibial plateau stress fracture following navigated total knee arthroplasty: two case reports. American Journal of Case Reports, 22, 2021. *Corresponding author
- Rahman H*, Pipinos I, Johanning J, Casale G, Williams M, Thompson J, O’Neill-Castro Y, Myers S. Claudicating patients with peripheral artery disease have meaningful improvement in walking speed after supervised exercise therapy. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 74(6), 2021. *Corresponding author
- Rahman H, Pipinos I, Johanning J, Myers S. Gait variability is affected more by peripheral artery disease than by vascular occlusion. PLoS ONE, 16(3), 2021.
- Sartawi M, Rahman H*, Kohlmann J, Levine B. First reported series of outpatient total knee arthroplasty in the middle east. Arthroplasty Today, 6(4), 2020.
- Putterman A, Duffy DJ, Kersh ME, Rahman H, Moore GE. Effect of running continuous epitendinous suture pattern for flexor tendon repair in combination with three-loop pulley and locking loop suture patterns in a canine cadaveric model. Veterinary Surgery, 48(7), 2019. *Corresponding author
- Sartawi M, Rahman H*, Kohlmann J, Leighton R, Kersh ME. A Retrospective Analysis of the Modified Intervastus Approach. American Journal of Orthopedics, 47(12), 2018. *Corresponding author
- Rahman H, Currier E, Johnson M, Goding R, Johnson AW, Kersh ME. Primary and secondary consequences of rotator cuff injury on joint stabilizing tissues in the shoulder. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 139(11), 2017.
- Lee W, Rahman H, Kersh ME, Toussaint K. Application of quantitative second-harmonic generation microscopy to posterior cruciate ligament for crimp analysis studies. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 22(4), 2017.