COURSE PREREQUISITES OR LIMITATIONS:
Undergraduate courses in physiology, biomechanics and anatomy or
permission by the instructor.

The purpose of studying clinical biomechanics is to understand the
forces acting on the human body and to manipulate these forces in
treatment procedures so that human performance may be improved and
further injury may be prevented. Human gait is the most common of all
human movements. It is one of the most difficult movement tasks that
we learn, but once learnt it becomes almost subconscious. The purpose
of this course is to assist in the understanding of the complex
biomechanical mechanisms of the intact and pathological gait
attempting to summarize the state of knowledge as it appears in the
literature of gait, and as it relates to data collection procedures
and analysis. Baseline measures of normal gait will be discussed, as
well as, pathological patterns, their magnitudes, consistency and
variability. An overview of the motor patterns will be presented to
show how the neuromuscular system achieves the gait task and reveals
the essential features of the gait control system. Lectures plus
laboratory work on selected topics will be included.
The course will be divided in the following 3 modules aiming at:
·	Basic understanding kinematic and external force data
acquisition for gait
·	Gait analysis: Normal and pathological gait.
·	Gait: Experimental considerations