Editorial: Wheeled Mobility Biomechanics

Editorial: Wheeled Mobility Biomechanics

Wheeled Mobility Biomechanics For the manual wheelchair (MWC) user, loss of lower extremity function often places the burden for mobility and activities of daily living on the upper extremities. People who use a MWC commonly report fatigue and musculoskeletal pain in the shoulder, most often due to increased demands of mobility (Kemp and Mosqueda, 2004; Kemp, 2005). Because individuals who rely...

Wheeled Mobility

1 Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA 2Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 3Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA 4Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center, Reade, 1040 HG Amsterdam, Th...

Editorial: Defusing the two-wheeled menace.

Surface EMG application in clinical biomechanics. Editorial.

‘‘The course of a movement is nothing else but a projection to the outside of a pattern of excitation taking place in a corresponding setting in the central nervous system‘‘. This citation of Hess (1954, according to Waterland, 1968) has caught my attention since the first day of my studies of the neuro-musculo-skeletal system in kinesiological tasks. Pursuing a bioengineering approach and inve...

Biomechanics of Pediatric Manual Wheelchair Mobility

Currently, there is limited research of the biomechanics of pediatric manual wheelchair mobility. Specifically, the biomechanics of functional tasks and their relationship to joint pain and health is not well understood. To contribute to this knowledge gap, a quantitative rehabilitation approach was applied for characterizing upper extremity biomechanics of manual wheelchair mobility in childre...