Every year, sixty-five percent of runners experience injury. This study looked to correlate the effects of spinal rotation with the impact forces on the feet and knees while jogging. For a group of 12 runners, force sensors, a spinal rotation device, and video were used for data collection. A musculoskeletal model used the resulting values to solve for the forces on the feet and knee joints. The results could not conclude that forces were reduced with increased spinal rotation.

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Creator

• Fontecchio, Thomas Michael
• Rauen, Stacey Leigh
• Allen, Benjamin M

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042811-123802

Advisor

• Savilonis, Brian James

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary
• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright