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Shear pedantry
I criticised a colleague the other day for using “shear force” to refer to the horizontal component of force measured by a force plate. He asked me “why?” Apart from me being a miserable old pedant...
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Push off push-off
Sheila from Dundee dropped me an e-mail: In your meanderings around the subject of gait have you come across any definitive descriptions of push-off i.e. at what time in the cycle does it start? Or do...
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What is normal?
A couple of months ago I wrote a post entitled normative data capture Part 1. No-one has yet demanded Part II but I’ll give it anyway. The earlier post concentrated on what sort of numbers were...
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Mind your language
I’ve recently heard of a new history of gait analysis being written and been given a preview of the section on language development which I’ve been given permission to share. The first task was...
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What is the opposite of compensatory?
I’ve recently been preparing some teaching material for a one day course on observational gait analysis which we are running this Friday. I got to the part where I normally introduce the concept of...
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