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23rd November, 2009 Dialed in Motion Gait Analysis
Choose Running Shoes for Give and For Gait.
Source: The National Dubai 16 November 2009 – Reporter: Leah Oatway
Viewing gait-analysis session at Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai.
In a weekly series leading up to the Dubai Marathon 2010 on January 22, Leah Oatway learns ways to give yourself the best chance of making it through. In this article she looks at getting fitted to the right shoes using Dialed in Motion Gait Analysis system.
A runner on gait-analysis equipment in Dubai. Duncan Chard / The National
A friend once joked that I run like Phoebe from the American television comedy Friends ...
10th December, 2008 Video software boosts amputee rehabilitation
| Amputees stand to benefit from software that will analyse their gait and movement to optimise the fit, comfort and effectiveness of artifical limbs.
A grant from the Thomas George Macarthy Trust, received by the Amputee Society, has been used to buy video-analysis software from Siliconcoach. |
1st October, 2008 Video analysis at Stanford University
siliconcoach used at Stanford University.
Siliconcoach Pro is being used in a number of research projects and with athletes at the Human Performance Lab at Stanford University in California, Dr Besier, the lab director, is a strong supporter of the software and has included it along with other biomechanical and physiological testing equipment in their extensive array of world class equipment.
Jenny McConnell, a very well know and highly respected Physiotherapist from Australia, is working in the Stanford lab with Dr Besier looking at whether taping the shoulder can alter its mechanics when throwing. They are using a 3D Vicon ...
4th February, 2008 UK Podiatrists take to siliconcoach
Siliconcoach have been exhibiting their Pro system to attendees at the Society for Chiropodists and Podiatrists Conference at the Harrogate International Centre. Delegates were able to witness how to capture quality footage of a clients gait cycle, build a presentation with drawings and audio commentary and then share this information via a burnt CD or e-mail after the assessment. During the conference, Craig Payne from LaTrobe University, Australia further outlined how he had used Siliconcoach as a clinical assessment tool during his session on the prescription of foot orthoses. The siliconcoach UK team were also visited by SCP representatives including ...