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Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Gök 2002 : Kinetic and kinematic characteristics of gait in patients with medial knee arthrosis
 

Acta Otolaryngologica

Ardic 2000 : Paraspinal muscle response to electrical vestibular stimulation
 

Advance for Directors of Rehabilitation

Esquenazi 2006 : Gait training enters the high-tech age
 

American Journal of Human Biology

Benderlioglu 2004 : Fluctuating asymmetry predicts human reactive aggression

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Bush-Joseph 2001 : Dynamic function after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with autologous patellar tendon
Chappell 2002 : A comparison of knee kinetics between male and female recreational athletes in stop-jump tasks
Decker 1999 : Serratus anterior muscle activity during selected rehabilitation exercises
Decker 2003 : Subscapularis muscle activity during selected rehabilitation exercises
Hooper 2001 : Open and closed kinetic chain exercises in the early period after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
MacWilliams 1998 : Characteristic Ground-Reaction Forces in Baseball Pitching
Noyes 2000 : High Tibial osteotomy and Ligament reconstruction for varus angulated anterior cruciate ligament-deficient knees
Pollo 2002 : Reduction of medial compartment loads with valgus bracing of the osteoarthritic knee
Yu 2004 : Immediate effects of a knee brace with a constraint to knee extension on knee kinematics and ground reaction forces in a stop-jump task
 

Applied Ergonomics

Cutlip 2000 : A comparison of different postures for scaffold end-frame disassembly
Cutlip 2002 : Optimal hand locations for safe scaffold-end-frame disassembly
 

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ASME Conference

Robinovitch 2001 : Impact severity during a backward fall depends on the timing of the "squat" protective response during descent
 

Books

Equine Locomotion : Chapter 3: Measurement Techniques for Gait Analysis (by Clayton)
 

British Journal of Psychology

Maylor 2001 : Effects of spatial and nonspatial cognitive activity on postural stability
 

Clinical Biomechanics

Andriacchi 1996 : Evaluation of alternative marking/processing protocols to derive joint spatial data (abstract)
Chiari 2002 : Stabilometric parameters are affected by anthropometry and foot placement
Davis 1998 : Evaluation of spinal loading during lowering and lifting
Jorgensen 2000 : The effect of lumbar back support tension on trunk muscle activity
Mackey 2005 : Postural steadiness during quiet stance does not associate with ability to recover balance in older women
Otis 1996 : Load sharing at the knee during valgus bracing for medial compartment osteoarthritis (abstract)
Whittle 1997 : Force platform measurement of the heelstrike transient in normal walking (abstract)
 

Ergonomics

Duarte 2000 : Stabilographic analysis of unconstrained standing
Ferguson 2002 : Spinal loading when lifting from industrial storage bins
Hanson 1999 : Predicting slips and falls considering required and available friction
Pline 2006 : Influence of fatigue time and level on increases in postural sway
 

Experimental Brain Research

Clapp 1999 : Light touch contributions to balance in normal bipedal stance
Duarte 2002 : Effects of body lean and visual information on the equilibrium maintenance during stance
Elger 1999 : Integration of the hand in postural reactions to sustained sideways force at the pelvis
Gilles 1999 : Lateral balance organisation in human stance in response to a random or predictable perturbation
Scholz 2001 : Effects of varying task constraints on solutions to joint coordination in a sit-to-stand task
Wing 1997 : Anticipatory postural adjustments in stance and grip Gait and Posture
 

 Edginton 2007 : Usage of fractal analysis in evaluating health and disease

Gait and Posture

Cham 2002 : Changes in gait when anticipating slippery floors
Chiari 2000 : An improved technique for the extraction of stochastic parameters from stabilograms
Chou 2004 : Dynamic instability during obstacle crossing following traumatic brain injury
Conforto 2001 : Hemodynamics as a possible internal mechanical disturbance to balance
Feldman 2005: Neuromuscular versus behavioural influences on reaching performance in young and elderly women
Growney 1997 : Repeated measures of adult normal walking using a video tracking system
Hof 2005 : Assessment of two-dimensional induced accelerations from measured kinematic and kinetic data
Kim 2003 : Symmetry in vertical ground reaction force is accompanied by symmetry in temporal but not distance variables of gait in persons with stroke
Kim 2004 : Magnitude and pattern of 3D kinematic and kinetic gait profiles in persons with stroke: relationship to walking speed
King 1997 : Extracting gravity line displacement from stabilographic recordings
King 2002 : Periods of extreme ankle displacement during one-legged standing
Lomaglio 2005 : Muscle strength and weight-bearing symmetry relate to sit-to-stand performance in individuals with stroke
Manal 2002 : Knee moment profiles during walking: errors due to soft tissue movement of the shank and the influence of the reference coordinate system
Maza 2005 : Sequencing sit-to-stand and upright posture for mobility limitation assessment: determination of the timing of the task phases from force platform data
Reisman 2002 : Coordination underlying the control of whole body momentum during sit-to-stand
Schrodt 2004 : Characteristics of stepping over an obstacle in community dwelling older adults under dual-task conditions
Tokuno 2003 : Postural and movement adaptations by individuals with a unilateral below-knee amputation during gait initiation
Williams 2004 : High-arched runners exhibit increased leg stiffness compared to low-arched runners

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Hormones and Behavior

Benderlioglu 2004 : Digit length ratios predict reactive aggression in women, but not in men

 

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing

Marras 1997 : Spine loading and probability of low back disorder risk as a function of box location on a pallet
 

Human Movement Science

Chiari 2000 : Classification of visual strategies in human postural control by stochastic parameters
Whittle 1997 : Three-dimensional motion of the center of gravity of the body during walking
 

Journal of American Geriatrics Society

Marigold 2005 : Exercise leads to faster postural reflexes, improved balance and mobility, and fewer falls in older persons with chronic stroke
 

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Jacob 1995 : Optic flow-induced sway in anxiety disorders associated with space and motion discomfort
 

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Anderson 2001 : Dynamic optimization of human walking
 

Journal of Biomechanics

Cham 2001 : Lower extremity corrective reactions to slip events
Fathallah 1997 : A method for measuring external spinal loads during unconstrained free-dynamic lifting
Geil 2000 : Comparison of methods for the calculation of energy storage and return in a dynamic elastic response prosthesis
Granata 1996 : A method for measuring external loads during dynamic lifting exertions
Hughes 2000 : Effect of optimizing criterion on spinal force estimates during asymmetric lifting
Hurwitz 1998 January : Dynamic knee loads during gait predict proximal tibial bone distribution
Hurwitz 1998 June : Hip motion and moments during gait relate directly to proximal femoral bone mineral density in patients with hip osteoarthritis
Hurwitz 2003 : A new parametric approach for modeling hip forces during gait
Marras 1997 : Spine loading during trunk lateral bending motions
Moisio 2003 : Normalization of joint moments during gait: a comparison of two techniques
Papa 1999 : A telescopic inverted-pendulum model of the musculo-skeletal system and its use for the analysis of the sit-to-stand motor task
Robinovitch 2000 : Impact severity in self-initiated sits and falls associated with center-of-gravity excursion during descent
Yu 1996 : Calibration of measured center of pressure of a new stairway design for kinetic analysis of stair climbing
 

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Marras 2001 : A non-MVC EMG normalization technique for the trunk musculature: Part 2. Validation and use to predict spinal loads
 

Journal of Occupational Rehab

Rogers 2001 : Training to reduce postural sway and increase functional reach in the elderly

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 Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy

 Tsai 2006 : Comparison of different structural foot types for measures of standing postural control

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Nagura 2002 : Mechanical loads at the knee joint during deep flexion
 

Journal of Rehab Research and Development

Finley 2002 : Reliability of biomechanical variables during wheelchair ergometry testing
Rodgers 2001 : Influence of training on biomechanics of wheelchair propulsion
 

Journal of Sports Rehabilitation

Powers 2004 : Six weeks of strength and proprioception training does not affect muscle fatigue and static balance in functional ankle instability
 

Journal of Sports Sciences

Abraham 2001 : Communications to the annual conference of the British association of sport and exercise sciences (BASES)
 

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Rudolph 2000 : Dynamic stability after ACL injury: who can hop?
Rudolph 2001 : Dynamic stability in the anterior cruciate ligament deficient knee
 

Manuscripts

Girardi 2002 : The BalanceTrak 500 normative data
 

Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science

Aragón-Vargas 2000 : Evaluation of four vertical jump tests: methodology, reliability, validity, and accuracy
 

Mechatronics

Shafiq 2001 : Marker detection and trajectory generation algorithms for a multicamera based gait analysis system
 

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Cappello 2004 : Periodical in-situ re-calibration of force platforms: a new method for the robust estimation of the calibration matrix
Rocchi 2004 : Feature selection of stabilometric parameters based on principal component analysis
 

Medical Engineering and Physics

Borzelli 1999 : Inter- and intra-individual variability of ground reaction forces during sit-to-stand with principal component analysis
 

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Hunter 2004 : Interaction of step length and step rate during sprint running
Kernozek 2005 : Gender differences in frontal and sagittal plane biomechanics during drop landings
Kraemer 2000 : Influence of compression hosiery on physiological response to standing fatigue in women
 

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Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Amin 2000 : Normative data for Balance Track 500 (abstract)
 

Otology and Neurotology

Amin 2002 : A comparison of electronystagmography results with posturography findings from the BalanceTrak 500
 

Philosophical Transactions Royal Society of London

Otten 1999 : Balancing on a narrow ridge: biomechanics and control
 

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology

Baloh 2002 : Disequilibrium and gait disorders in older people
 

Safety Science

Cham 2002 : Heel contact dynamics during slip events on level and inclined surfaces
 

Surgical Endoscopy

Gillette 2003 : Changes in postural mechanics associated with different types of minimally invasive surgical training exercises

The Laryngoscope

Girardi 2001 : Predicting fall risks in an elderly population: computer dynamic posturography versus electronystagmography test results
 

University of Delaware Publications

Benoit 2006 : An integrated approach for improving gait in a stroke population: combining robotics, FES and neuromusculoskeletal

Zeni 2006 : Familiarization to walking on a split-belt treadmill: kinetics, kinematics and spatio-temporal parameters
 

Bertec Publications

Periodically Bertec publishes papers relating to our in-house testing and new products.  The following are a few of these articles.

Bigelow 2007 : Better fits for lower-limb prosthetics
Edginton 2007 : Instrumented treadmills: reducing the need for gait labs
Kocak 2005 : Eye motion parameters correlate with level of experience in video-assisted surgery: objective testing of three tasks
Oggero 1998 : Collecting valid data from force plates: how many subjects must alter their gait?
Oggero 1998 : Probability of valid gait data acquisition using currently available force plates
 

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