Links to other biomechanics and related
sites
There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are
constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander
through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing
and hearing nothing.
HL Menken
Societies
BIOMCH-L (e-mail listfor biomechanics,
animal and human movement science)
International Society of Biomechanics
Biomechanics World
Wide 3-D Analysis
TechnicalGroup 
ABCMALE European
Accrediation System Good Practice Guidelines/Rules (GPG/GPR)
International
Society for Prosthetics & Orthotics (ISPO)
Prosthetics
Research Study 
Functional
Electrical Stimulation (Paraplegia/Tetraplegia) 
European Societyof
Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC) 
The Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis
Society 
Children's hemiplegia and stroke association
American Podiatric Medical Association
Data/software/videos
GAITLAB sample
of male and female gait data
Digi-Net98Web-based
Digitized Video Image System (University of Illinois)
Eadweard Muybridge GIF animations by Charl Lucassen
The Human Motor (Marey, Gilbreths
& Muybridge)
Onthe
Gait of Animals (Aristotle)
Phenakistoscope
Comparison of
Commercially Available Motion Analysis Systems
Instrumented
Gait Analysis Systems (nice review by Ernest L. Bontrager)
.C3D file format information&
Conversion software
Digital Signal
Processing (Iain Robin)
Gait simulation byScottDelp
(from the video
Normal Walking by Gillette Hospital) 
AnthroKids
-Anthropometric Data of Children
Walking skeleton
In-Shoe Pressure
Distribution Animation (Ewald Hennig)
History
of footwear by Cameron Kippen
Biped gait simulations by Jim Troy: 3-linkmodel,
5-linkmodel, 7-linkmodel
VRML Humanoid Animation
WorkingGroup
Virtual Humans... you'll need
for these examples!
FEELtheWeb (force-feedback
mousetechnology)
Footbones
Crutch
walking movies from Walk Easy
Bone & Joint CAT-ScanData
(Serge Van Sint Jan) 
Virtual
Animation of the Kinematics of the Human
Transfer interrupted!
estudies: 'It's my walking, Doc!'
ObservationalGait Analysis (Medical College
of Ohio)
Transfer interrupted!
estudies: 'It's my walking, Doc!'
IsYour Child Walking Right?
Transfer interrupted!
estudies: 'It's my walking, Doc!'
Gait
Disorders (general introduction by McGill Medical Informatics)
An integratedstudy
of the adaptation process:locomotion as a model (University of Antwerp) Foot &Ankle Special Interest
Group 
That Foot Site
Labanotation for Dance (not Gait, but fascinating stuff for all motion analyzers!)
Gesture controlled virtual musical instruments (ultrasound-based motion analysis)by
Godfried-Willem Raes
Recommendations
On The Future Of Gait Analysis (NIH)
Gait Analysis
in the Science of Rehabilitation (VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service)
Comments on the Pediatric
Orthopaedic Society's Subcommittee on Torsional Deformity
Medicare gait
codes from the US Federal Register
The Limping Child from Medscape
EMG Case Archive
from the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Teaching
Kinesiology
and Biomechanics Teacher's Resource Page (John Blackwell)
Tips on building a successful career in academia
Flash Animations (hip
& knee joint anatomy & surgery)
Interpretation Support
E-journals
Journal of Biomechanics Online
(free full-text access!)
Archives of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
Gait and Posture (Elsevier)
[Keyword Search]
Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics
Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery
Journalof
Prosthetics & Orthotics
Clinical Biomechanics
Medical Engineering & Physics
Journalof Electromyography and Kinesiology
Journal of Rehabilitation
Research and Development
Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics
Australian Journal
of Physiotherapy
Disabilityand
Rehabilitation
Journalof Biomechanical Engineering
Annals of Biomedical
Engineering
BioMedical
Engineering OnLine
Physiological Measurement
Physics in Medicine and
Biology
Applied Bionics
and Biomechanics
Medscape:Clinical Gait Analysis and Its Role in Treatment Decision-Making
Charnwood
Dynamics journal for the motion capture community
Rodger Kram'sweekly digest of journal articles on Locomotion
& Biomechanics
Instructions
to Authors in Health Sciences (over 2,000 journals in the health sciences)
Uniform Requirements for ManuscriptsSubmitted
to Biomedical Journals (International Committee of Medical JournalEditors)CEREBRAL
PALSY:
Spasticity-control
and Orthopaedics online book by Takashi Matsuo
Search Engines
BIOMCH-L Archives
Medline (PubMed)
& Pubcrawler
(free PubMed literatureupdate service)
Medsite
Medical World Search 
AltaVistaWeb-Search for "Gait"
U.S. Patent Database
...and, better: 
Laboratories
Human Power, Biomechanics, and Robotics Laboratory, Cornell
The National Centre forProsthetics
and Orthotics (NCPO) at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
University of Waterloo
University ofVirginia 
Penn State Centre for Locomotion
Studies 
Northwestern University Rehab.Eng.
and Prosthetics & Orthotics Center 
MGHBiomotion
Laboratory
DundeeGait
Laboratory 
Moss RehabGait
& Motion Analysis Lab (Sheerr Lab)
Funktionsbereich
Bewegungsanalytik (Movement Analysis Lab), Klinik für Allgemeine Orthopaedie(Orthopaedic
Department), Westf. Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster - Universityof Muenster
MIT
Leg Laboratory (Walking Robots, Intelligent Prosthetics)
Companies
CONTEMPLAS - professional motion
analysis software
Peak Motus / Vicon Motus
zFlo
ViconMotion Systems
Motion Lab Systems: EMG Systems
and Software for the Motion Laboratory
MotionAnalysis Corporation
CharnwoodDynamics (CODA)
Qualisys
C-Motion, Inc.
B|T|S Bioengineering Technology &
Systems (Elite motion analysis)
Novel Electronics Inc.(EMED, Pedar,
Pliance)
Kistler Instruments
Bertec Corporation
Advanced Medical Technologies
GaitMat
Skills Technologies
GAITRite - CIR Systems, Inc
MOTUS Bioengineering(gyro-based
motion analysis)
Zebris Medizintechnik Ultrasonic Motion
Analysis systems
Analogus Gypsy
MotionCapture
Ariel Dynamics Inc.
Footform Orthotics Labs
Measurand Joint Angle Shape Sensor
& Shape Tape
Biomedical monitoring
(small and light-weight data logging)
Xsens inertial motion tracker
Kinemotion analysis
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