Rate My Professor Stephen Cain

Cain's research spans human gait and balance, upper extremity biomechanics in manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury and arm use in breast cancer survivors, baseball pitching and hitting, warfighter performance, human-bicycle dynamics, and medication adherence, particularly for glaucoma eye drops. He has authored or co-authored key publications such as “Game-Day Pitch and Throw Count Feasibility Using a Single Sensor to Quantify Workload in Youth Baseball Players” with Freehill et al. (The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023), “Sensor Location Matters When Estimating Player Workload for Baseball Pitching” with Agresta et al. (Sensors, 2022), “Using Sensors for Player Development: Assessing Biomechanical Factors Related to Pitch Command and Velocity” (Sensors, 2022), “Evaluation of error-state Kalman filter method for estimating human lower-limb kinematics during various walking gaits” with Potter et al. (Sensors, 2022), and “Investigating walking speed variability of young adults in the real world” with Baroudi et al. (Gait & Posture, 2022). As Co-PI or Co-I, he contributes to NIH-funded projects including “Quantifying and understanding glaucoma eye drop medication instillation and adherence” (R01EB032328, 2022–2026, $2,376,974), “Exploring gait patterns in the real world” (R21AG076989, 2022–2024), and “Natural history of shoulder pathology in wheelchair users” (R01HD084423). Earlier honors include the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2003) and University of Michigan teaching program selections.