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RUN_UP_ANALYSIS_OF_RUNNING

Run-up: Analysis of Running

    Run Up, based on shoe sensors, helps to select appropriate footwear, correct running technique, and prevent injuries.

     Running has grown enormously, now reaching 80 million Europeans. Run Up project aims at developing new wearable shoe sensors and advanced foot strike analysis algorithm. It will provide running professionals such as coaches, podiatrists and shoe retailers with valuable running advices and recommendations, to help their own clients to select appropriate footwear, correct running technique, and ultimately prevent injuries.

    This new development already has strong bases, since it will elaborate on previous findings of the Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement (LMAM) at EPFL. Indeed, thanks to Physilog® system equipped with additional EMG electrodes, running has been characterized through the calculation of accurate spatio- temporal parameters and muscle activity parameters.

    This system has allowed quantification of foot striking pattern (pronation/supination), running speed, time of flight and muscle activation pre/post foot strike. Measurements were performed in natural condition on a running track, with subjects including amateur athletes and unilateral hip resurfacing patients.

    Run Up project is supported by a CTI grant.It gathers top class partners such as Laboratory of Movement Analysis and Measurement (LMAM) at EPFL, Institut des sciences du sport de l'Université de Lausanne (ISSUL) and Gait Up, to shift this technology into a commercial product.

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