A Step in the Right Direction to Avoid Falls
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/24/2014

Researchers at The Ohio State University have gained new insight into how the
body moves when we're walking. They learned everything they needed to know by
watching people walk naturally on a treadmill.

Manoj Srinivasan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the head
of the Movement Lab at Ohio State will continue this work in the Movement
Lab, where his team will set about corroborating these results with other
experiments—to more clearly understand human walking stability and
control and developing their model to aid diagnosis and treatment of
stability problems.

As to the engineering applications of this research, former doctoral student
Yang Wang said that a better understanding of the human gait could inform the
design of assistive exoskeletons that help people with movement disorders
walk naturally. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/09/step-right-direction-avoid-falls

Links:
Manoj Srinivasan
http://movement.osu.edu/manoj-srinivasan.html
https://mae.osu.edu/people/srinivasan.88

Movement Lab
http://movement.osu.edu/