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Biomechania is the product support link for clinical & human factors research at mechatron.com.  Several new products are emerging from the clinical and human factors efforts.  These products are developed by Biomechania and may at some point migrate to a commercial concern as demand may require.  These products are described herein.  

A light weight, ambulatory data collection system and software was necessary for human locomotion economy studies when existing commercial systems were found unsuitable.  This new instrument collects accelerometer, force, heart rate and marker data during walking and running.  The data is downloaded into a PC and a joint time and frequency signature pattern is developed and analyzed.

A treadmill is typically speed controlled device that provides driving motion to a tread where an operator rides.  The operator is expected to match the speed of the tread with their locomotion speed and set a desired speed from a control panel on the treadmill.  This system differs from actual road load conditions in that the tread is in motion and no force is required to produce forward motion by the operator.  Human factors research at mechatron.com in concert with the Center For BioDynamics at Miami University is currently underway to better simulate actual road load conditions on a treadmill and thus provide a more optimized musculoskeletal stimulation patterns.