M. P. Kadaba

TL;DR: The relatively small number of body surface markers used in the VICON system render it easy to implement for use in routine clinical gait evaluations and should be a useful reference for describing and comparing pathologic gait patterns.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that with the subjects walking at their natural or preferred spped, the gait variables are quite repeatable, and suggest that it may be reasonable to base significant clinical decisions on the results of a single gait evaluation.

TL;DR: Results show that surface electrode data represent a more consistent measure of activity of superficial muscles, if comparisons are to be made between gait data from different test days, and were better for surface electrodes than wire electrodes, irrespective of the smoothing window.

TL;DR: This study presents an application of principal component analysis as a means for representing graphic waveforms in a parsimonious manner and shows that the corresponding basis vectors span parts of the gait cycle where the most variability between individual subjects exists.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that cyclical loading can cause a device of this type to generate electrical charge while attached to bone, and direct currents within the range known to stimulate osteogenesis can be produced by weighed‐bearing loads.

TL;DR: The gait analysis laboratory provides quantified assessments of human locomotion which assist in the orthopaedic management of various pediatric gait pathologies by utilizing a video-based data collection strategy similar to commercially available systems for motion data collection.

TL;DR: This paper deals with methodological problems related to the reconstruction of the position and orientation of the human pelvis and the lower limb bones in space during the execution of locomotion and physical exercises using a stereophotogrammetric system.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that with the subjects walking at their natural or preferred spped, the gait variables are quite repeatable, and suggest that it may be reasonable to base significant clinical decisions on the results of a single gait evaluation.

TL;DR: The modelling method presented represents a good way to estimate in vivo muscle forces during movement tasks and changing the muscle model to one that is more physiologically correct produced better predictions.

TL;DR: In this study, the individual contributions of the ankle plantar flexors to the body segment energetics are examined using a musculoskeletal model and optimization framework to generate a forward dynamics simulation of normal walking at 1.5 m/s.