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Biomechanics of Assistance

advanced~9 hours12 lessons
Start: Walking, measured: the gait cycle and its conventionsPractice questions

Modules

Module 1 — The gait cycle
  1. 1Walking, measured: the gait cycle and its conventions
  2. 2Joint kinematics: what the hip, knee, and ankle actually do
  3. 3Joint kinetics: moments, powers, and where gait's work is done
Module 2 — Effort
  1. 1Muscle as an actuator: force, length, velocity
  2. 2The metabolic cost of walking, and what drives it
  3. 3What assistance targets: the joint-level budget of effort
Module 3 — The interface
  1. 1Attaching a machine to a person: load paths and anchors
  2. 2Shear, pressure, and comfort: the interface's failure modes
  3. 3One design, many bodies: anthropometric variation
Module 4 — Evaluation
  1. 1What 'it helps' means: outcomes and benchmarks
  2. 2Measuring assistance: protocols and pitfalls
  3. 3The evidence landscape: what wearables have actually shown