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This e-letter is created to help you take part of the latest research in the area of orthopaedic technology and biomechanics. The articles are presented in a summarized version. This issue is covering the areas of diabetics, sport medicine/orthotics and prosthetics. Diabetic gait and posture abnormalities: A biomechanical investigation through three dimensional gait analysis Clinical Biomechanics 24 (2009) 722–728 It is well known that sensimotor polyneuropaty is a long-term diabetic complication, involved in the pathogenesis of the diabetic foot, which causes morbidity and also mortality. Sawacha and colleagues investigated how diabetic polyneuropathy affected gait and posture with the aim to develop a methodology to identify subjects at risk for ulceration. They wanted to find alternations in both diabetic gait and postural alternations. The study team included 67 subjects: 26 diabetics with polyneuropathy, 21 diabetics without polyneuropathy and 20 control subjects. The test subjects underwent morphological evaluation by physical examination, gait analysis and postural assessment by a motion capture system that was connected with force plates and baropodometric systems. The investigators evaluated mobility of lower limb, deformities of foot, posture of trunk and pelvis, position of knee and heel, plantar foot arch, three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics during gait. Further the effect of peripheral vascular disease and microangiopathy on trunk and lower limb motion was evaluated. The result showed that mobility of trunk and lower limb joint (in static and dynamic states) were reduced in both diabetic groups on each plane, but in diabetics with polyneuropathy the test significantly recorded lower