Understanding how the muscles and forces during the gait cycle are affected when different running techniques are used. This study looks to find a correlation between the effects of spinal rotation and the impact forces on the feet and knees while jogging. For a group of 40 runners, two force transducers were placed in the right insole of their shoe to measure the vertical forces upon landing during heel strike and a spinal rotation device was placed on their backs to measure spinal rotation. The forces were correlated to amount of spinal rotation during a jog with normal form, an exaggerated spinal rotation and a restricted spinal rotation. The results showed there was no correlation to the reduction of force as a direct result of increased or decreased spinal rotation.

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Creator

• Wingert, Richard Alwyn
• Boucher, Michael Grady
• Setalsingh, Savonne James
• Pierre, David

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042512-153117

Advisor

• Gaudette, Glenn R.
• Savilonis, Brian James

Year

• 2012

Date created

• 2012-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright