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
Data/Software/Videos
Teaching
E-Journals
Search
Laboratories
Companies

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)
Gentle And Complete  Foot CareProsthetics 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 needInstall Cortona VRML Client for FREE!for these examples! FEELtheWeb (force-feedback mousetechnology)
Footbones
Crutch walking movies from Walk Easy
Bone & Joint CAT-ScanData (Serge Van Sint Jan) moving VAKHUM logoVirtual Animation of the Kinematics of the Human

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ObservationalGait Analysis (Medical College of Ohio)

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IsYour Child Walking Right?

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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 FASIG Logo
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)
Logo der WWU MŸnsterFunktionsbereich 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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