Research Studies

The first aim of this study is to develop IMove to detect the stance and swing phase of gait cycles and to characterize pelvic, hip, knee and ankle joint angles during these phases. The second aim is to then validate measures obtained from IMove with those obtained from a motion capture system. The central hypothesis of this proposal is that IMove can accurately measure kinematics of the lower limb joints in the sagittal, frontal and horizontal planes, and characterize their coordination during gait, using inertial sensors attached to the pelvis, femur, tibia and foot using strap bands.