ORTHOTIC FOOTWEARThe orthotic footwear industry, encompassing products like orthopedic shoes and foot orthotic insoles, represents a significant market with considerable growth projections: Orthopedic Footwear Market: As of 2022, the orthopedic...
Category - Stance and Gait Mechanics
Focus on understanding and improving movement through anatomy, physiology, and technology like the Sprike App. It covers posture, reflex integration, ergonomic shoe design, and the effects of gravity, aiming to optimize human movement for health and efficiency.
There are multiple, conflicting descriptions of “normal” human gait. Describing gait in other animals is straightforward, as their movement patterns are finely honed stimulus/response patterns well integrated with their environment...
While deeply embedded within our built surroundings, it is challenging for us to understand the movement dynamics of our hunter/gatherer ancestors. A recent discovery in White Sands National Park of ancient footprints, perhaps 23,000 years old...
Our reflexes, qualities of the tensile fabric of our connective tissue matrix, muscle strength, and conceptual framework influence how we move. Our characteristics of movement can be captured with Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) in the three...
The model of the gravitational force we employ, as we move about, is deeply embedded within our social construct. This model can be described thus: “Gravity pulls us downward and we have to push ourselves upward against this force to move...
This research reveals that movement is an extension of neurological organization based primarily on head position relative to the body. It validates long held theories, thereby adding confidence to our understanding that movement is an...
A casual examination of the control of muscle function would lead one to the concept of this control as a switch - you turn on or off the specific function. However, the actual electrical control of muscle action is quite a bit more interesting.
Our feet evolved over the last ~ 5 million years to not only perform the task of the rear feet of animals that walk on four legs but to also take on the tasks of the front feet, freeing these feet to become our hands
I recently discovered what could be thought of as the next-generation massage ball for feet - the Yamuna Foot Waker.
The biomechanics of vision and their influence on eyesight are more easily grasped if we first understand how the structure supporting the eyes relates to the fundamental structure of our posture and gait: It makes sense that exercises that...