PEP 6403 Biomechanics

Weekly Readings

Week Two

Qualitative Analysis of Human Movement: Chapter 5 - Preparation: The First Task of Qualitative Analysis,(pages 67-76)

Check out Basics I and II on the site page and make sure you are familiar with the terms are concepts addressed at those two sites. At some point it probably would be reasonable to have a quiz over that material.

Week Three

Labanotation, Hutchinson, A. 1954, (pages 9-29)

Movement Study and Benesh Movement Notation, McGuinness-Scott, J., 1983, (pages 1-13)

Week Four

Nike Sport Research Review - Match Analysis

Mayhew, S.R. and Wenger, H.A. Time-Motion analysis of professional soccer

Match Analysis - spend a few minutes browsing this site

Week Five

McDowell, B.C., Hewitt, V., Nurse, A., Weston, T., Baker, R. The variability of goniometric measurements in ambulatory children with spastic cerebral palsy

Assorted Abstracts

Week Six

McGinnis, P.M., Newell, K.M. Topological dynamics: A framwork for describing movement and its constraints

Grasso, R., Bianchi, L., Lacquaniti, F. Motor patterns for human gait: Backward versus forward locomotion

Week Nine

Prieto, T.E., Myklebust, J.B., Hoffmann, R.G., Lovett, E.G., Myklebust, B.M. Measures of postural steadiness: Differences between healthy young and elderly adults.

Bouisset, S., Zattara, M. Biomechanical study of the programming of anticipatory postural adjustments associated with voluntary movement

Week Ten

De Wit, B., De Clercq, D., Aerts, P. Biomechanical analysis of the stance phase during barefoot and shod running

 

 

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Perrin, O., Terrier, P., Ladetto, Q., Merminod, B., Schutz, Y. Improvement of walking speed prediction by accelerometry and altimetry, validated by satellite positioning

Giacomozzi, C., Macellari, V., Leardini, A., Benedetti, M.G. Integrated pressure-force-kinematics measuring system for the characterisation of plantar foot loading during locomotion

Pataky, Z., Faravel, L. Da Silva, J., Assal, J. A new ambulatory foot pressure device for patients with sensory impairment. A system for continious measurement of plantar pressure and a feed-back alarm

Fowler, N.K., Nicol, A.C. A force transducer to measure individual finger loads during activities of daily living

Ferrigno, G., Baroni, G., Pedotti, A. Methodological and technological implications of quantitative human movement analysis in long term space flight

Chadwick, E.K.J., Nicol, A.C., Floyd, S., Gray, T.G. F. A telemetry-based device to determine the force-displacement behavior of materials in high impact loading situations

Pidcoe, P.E., Rogers, M.W. A closed-loop stepper motor waist-pull system for inducing protective stepping in humans