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Introduction
My experience includes 3DGA in children with movement disorders. My masters degree involved upper limb motion analysis, and my PhD involved measurement of hip health in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphyses. My career objective is to explore motion capture use in upper and lower limbs to improve understanding of pathological movement, and assist the advancement of treatment and outcomes for children.
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January 2000 - present
January 2000 - March 2003
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Publications (16)
Background
Children with the most common inherited neuropathy, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), are often prescribed ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) to improve walking ability and prevent falls by reducing foot drop, postural instability, and other gait impairments. These externally worn assistive devices are traditionally custom-made using thermoplas...
Background
Hip dysplasia is a lack of femoral head coverage and disruption of hip and acetabular alignment and congruency, with severity ranging from mild subluxation in nascent at-risk hips to complete dislocation. Presentation of hip dysplasia in neuromuscular conditions can be sub-clinical or associated with a limp with or without hip pain, abdu...
Background:
Pedobarography software calculates the centre-of-pressure trajectory in relation to the foot to quantify foot contact patterns. This study presents two new pedobarography measures using the centre-of-pressure trajectory to assess heel rocker.
Methods:
To validate these pedobarography measures against 3D gait analysis, emed®-x and Vic...
Background:
Exercise is potentially therapeutic for neuromuscular disorders, but a risk of harm exists due to overwork weakness. We aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of progressive resistance exercise for foot dorsiflexion weakness in children with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Methods:
We did this randomised, double-blind, sham-controlled...
We report on a female patient with stiff-knee gait resulting from rectus femoris fibrosis, following multiple injections into the quadriceps musculature. Treatment planning and outcome were aided by instrumented three-dimensional gait analysis. One year after surgery, improvements were found in walking speed, step length, anterior pelvic tilt, knee...
Normative reference values are essential to identify deviation from normal and evaluate response to treatment. As joint range of motion datasets specific to the pediatric population are infrequently reported in the literature, we determined lower limb passive joint range of motion and bone torsion values from 53 typically developing children aged 4...
Research methods in upper limb (UL) movement analysis are developing towards clinical tools. The identification of repeatable UL tasks in healthy children was investigated using the UNSW UL kinematic model. Characteristics of the movement patterns of two functional tasks measured are repeatable, allowing use of normative graphs for comparison to pa...
This paper documents research that quantifies and describes the biomechanics of normal gait on inclined surfaces.
Experimental, investigative.
It is necessary to walk on inclined surfaces to negotiate the natural and built environments. Little research has been conducted on the biomechanics of normal gait on inclined surfaces.
The gait of 11 health...
