Module code: MHT7008-B
To stimulate an understanding of the concepts underlying clinical biomechanics, and promote an understanding of how the application of biomechanics can provide insights into balance and locomotive disorders and/or adaptations.
Covers 3D and advanced gait and posture analyses; including using inverse dynamics modelling to determine joint moments and muscle powers. Emphasis on how such is used in a clinical context (e.g. for diagnosis, assessment of rehabilitation outcome, etc). Weekly round-table discussion is used to develop a critical understanding of the literature, on for example topics such as: - is knee osteoarthritis a biomechanical problem and can we use biomechanical variables for early detection; - what are the gait and balance deficits in inviduals with neural disorders; - how does the foot deform during ground contact to attenuate the reaction forces from the ground, etc.?
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