Welcome to the Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics
The Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics focuses on the study of kinematics and kinetics in healthy, reconstructed and replaced joints. By examining the quality of movement, we also aim to extract key information on an individual’s functional status and thereby lay the foundations for understanding and monitoring the degenerative changes that occur with musculoskeletal and neuromotor pathologies, but also the adaptation that results from ageing or rehabilitation. The targeted application of key experimental and computational techniques thereby enables encompassing approaches to support clinical decision-making in the fields of gerontology, trauma, orthopaedics and neurology, but also opens perspectives on the objective assessment of both medical technologies and therapies alike.
We are delighted to announce that Dr Reto Togni and Stefan Villiger have been awarded a Pioneer fellowship for the development of their “Steering-by-Leaning” wheelchair design. The award comes with 150kCHF in funding and should support their work towards commercialisation of this excellent design. You can read the details here: https://retotogni.com/the-reagiro
The Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics (LMB - ETH Zurich) together with the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability (MOVCENTR - UNO Omaha) is organizing a 4-day workshop from July 3 – 6 2023, converging experts in the field for deeper discussions and future international level efforts and collaboration for development and validation of biomarkers arising from nonlinear analysis of movement variability.
We are delighted to announce the release of the award winning "Stan" datasets at http://cams-knee.orthoload.com. These standardised data represent state-of-the-art knowledge on human knee kinematics and kinetics, including Vicon optical marker measurements, and force plate data measuring the ground reaction forces. The data are freely available for research, so download them here and give them a spin!
Outstanding doctoral theses at ETH Zurich are honoured with the Silver Medal. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Deepak Ravi has been awarded with the Silver Medal for this dissertation titled “Benchmarking human locomotor adaptation in time and magnitude: from perturbations to recovery”.
Congratulations to Michael Dreyer and team on receiving the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) S.M. Perren Research Award for the manuscript “Standardized Tibio-Femoral Implant Loads and Kinematics” (by MJ Dreyer, A Trepczynski, SH Hosseini Nasab, I Kutzner, P Schütz, B Weisse, J Dymke, B Postolka, P Moewis, G Bergmann, GN Duda, WR Taylor, P Damm, CR Smith).
Congratulations to Rosa Visscher and team, who got awarded the first price for their preliminary results towards evaluation of developmental trajectories in gait variability during the first Swiss Academy for Childhood Disorders Research Day. The price entails 1'800 CHF sponsored by the Anna Müller Grocholski foundation.