Equipment

  • A 12-high-speed digital camera system (Qualisys AB, Sweden) for acquiring kinematics data
  • Loadsols (in-soles for force measurement) of different sizes available in Heel-Mid-foot-Forefoot and Heel-Medial foot-Lateral foot configurations; Some adult sizes and some pediatrics sizes available
  • APDM Mobility Lab System: Gait and posture analysis system with 6 Opal Movement monitors with plugins for ITUG, ISWAY, ISAW, CTSIB and IWALK
  • APDM Moveo Explorer system: 8 Movement monitors (IMUs) with associated software (version 2) to give joint angles during gait and other tasks
  • APDM Mobility Lab: 6 movement monitors (IMUs) with associated software (version 1) to give kinematics parameters during different tasks
  • Zeno walkway system for gait analysis with ProtoKinetics software
  • A portable AMTI Accugait force platform and a dedicated laptop to run the software
  • Bertec Instrumented Split Belt Treadmill
  • Biodex System 4 Dynamometer for strength assessment
  • Biodex BioSway – portable balance measuring and training devices
  • Biodex treadmill (for rehab-related work)
  • Jamar handheld dynamometers for strength assessment
  • Neurocom Balance Master
  • Woodway treadmill (for running-related work)
  • Vulcam 2D video capture system
  • StepWatch Activity Monitors for physical activity assessment
  • Force platforms (AMTI, Watertown, MA) integrated with the motion capture system for acquiring kinetics data
  • ForceFrame for instrumented dynamometry
  • Digitizing pointer
  • CalTester
  • A16-channel Wireless EMG system (Delsys Incorporated, Avanti) for acquiring data pertaining to muscle activation
  • Lafayette anthropometrics (measurement devices)
  • 2 GAITRite systems (CIR Systems, Inc., Sparta, NJ) for a quick gait analysis; portable as well
  • Test Center Timing System (Brower) to use as a timing gate system
  • C2 and EMS Tactors (Engineering Acoustics, Inc., Casselberry, FL) for vibrotactitle pertubations
  • 2 Microsoft Xbox Kinect systems
  • Bertec portable force plate (Koury athletics)
  • Run virtual reality applications (Unity software)

Software

  • Qualisys Track Manager
  • BioAnalysis and NetForce.
  • Visual3D with gait, running and golf packages
  • EMGWorks acquisition and analysis software
  • Protokinetics motion analysis software for data processing
  • ActiLife (data analysis software for Actigraph accelerometers)
  • StepWatch activity monitor data processing software
  • Biodex Patient data collection software
  • Visual3D software (C-Motion, Inc., Germantown, MD) – for data processing and analyses, integrated with the motion capture system , force plates and EMG systems
  • Vizard VR Toolkit (Santa Barbara, CA) – for developing Virtual Reality applications
  • Matlab (Mathworks, Natick, MA) – for data analyses