Thomas LAPOLE
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After obtaining his PhD in 2009 (University of Amiens), Thomas was appointed as a teaching and research assistant at the University of Amiens (2009-2011), and at the University of Compiègne (2011-2012) as a post-doctoral fellow. He got a permanent assistant professor position at the University of Saint-Etienne in 2012 where he defended his accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in 2018. He was Dean of the Sport Science department (educational) (2016-2018) and was named Vice-Dean of the Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology in 2020. Thomas mainly conducts research programs on the plasticity of neuromuscular function in response to local vibration. For instance, he demonstrated that local vibration applied to a muscle or its tendon is a strong stimulus to modulate the central nervous system, triggering long-term neural adaptations and improved functional performance. This leads him to now propose the use of local vibration to prevent neuromuscular deconditioning or promote neuromuscular reconditioning in clinical settings. Since he had his position at Saint-Etienne, he also extended his thematic areas to the study of neuromuscular fatigue as well as neuromuscular electrical stimulation. He also developed works related to the evaluation of muscle mechanical properties. All these research activities have been well funded (over 662,000€ up to November 2020) and have received 7 awards (3 for Thomas himself and 4 for supervised students). In November 2020, Thomas had published 45 journal articles and signed more than 80% of these publications in a significant rank of the authorship (1st, 2nd or last rank). |
Thomas Lapole (thomas.lapole @ univ-st-etienne.fr) Phone: 04 77 42 18 91
Institution Université Jean Monnet (Saint-Etienne) Responsability Deputy Director Head of the St Etienne site Team: [PAF] Position Associate professor
Publications |
1. Concept of local vibration training: chronic use of local vibration on relaxed muscles can increase force production capacities. 2. Local vibration training improves strength recovery early after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. 3. Neural adaptations from spinal and supra-spinal levels are observed during vibration exposure, after a single prolonged vibration session (i.e. 30 to 60 min), and on the long-term after local vibration training. 4. Active muscle stiffness can be evaluated taking advantage of shear wave elastography. | |
