| Biomechanics of the Human Movement
is an interdiscipline that applies mechanical concepts to the study of
human movement. Direct problems consist of the synthesis of human movement,
using models of bones, muscles and joints. Inverse problems consist of
the estimation of internal forces and model parameters, based on biological
measurements.
One of our research works in Biomechanics
aims the automatic derivation of the equations of motion for constrained
mechanical systems. This work allows the calculation of the numerical values
of kinematic variables for any type of constraint equations given by the
user. Applications in Biomechanics involve both direct and inverse problems.
Studies about the functionality
of an integrated hardware-software system for movement analysis have been
developed at the Medical Rehabilitation Division of the Clinical Hospital
of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo. This system
performs photogrametric analysis of human movement, surface dynamic electromyography
and ground reaction force measurement. Applications include gait analysis
of cerebral palsy and stroke patients.
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Gait analysis with ground reaction forces.
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