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Clinical Biomechanics in Human Locomotion: Gait and Pathomechanical Principles explores the clinical management of gait-disturbing or gait-induced pathologies and biomechanical variances during gait between individuals. The book discusses what is required to make terrestrial human locomotion safe and what causes pathology within a context of high locomotive and morphological variability. The interaction of genetics, epigenetics, developmental biology and physiology under the influence of locomotive biomechanics and metabolic energetics drives evolution. Such biological pressures on survival are essential in understanding the locomotive biomechanics of modern humans. In addition, lifestyle, including gait speed adaptability established during the growth influences of anatomical development is also considered.
List of contents
1. Understanding Human Gait
2. Locomotive Functional Units
3. The Foot as a Functional Unit
4. Pathology Through the Principles of Biomechanics
About the author
• 32 years of working experience in clinical biomechanics treating patients
• Designed and currently leading a PG module at Staffordshire University, titled “Principles of Biomechanics”.
• Designed and involved in the delivery of a PG MSc level module titled “Origins and Principles of Clinical biomechanics” at Staffordshire University, since 1999.
• Guest lecturer as School of Podiatry, Caledonia University Glasgow
• Published theoretical and clinical papers on clinical biomechanics.Dr. Chockalingam is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. He is also a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. As Professor of Clinical Biomechanics, he directs the Movement Analysis Laboratory and lead the biomechanics team and research at Staffordshire University. He is also an Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai. In terms of research leadership and management, Dr. Chockalingam is involved with the strategic committees and executive boards of various national and international organisations. Within Staffordshire University, in addition to contributing to committees across institution, he also chairs the University Research Ethics Committee and lead the University Professoriate.
