Academic Papers on Biomechanics of Gait and Running.

Bioengineering? You gonna clone people? Asshole.

Hahaha, nice.

I often get genetics and biomechanics mixed up too.

Some good places to look for papers would be engineeringvillage2.com and webofscience. Both are academic search engines that should give you free access to articles if you go through your library's website or a campus computer. Other than that I can only suggest using google and hoping to find some free/old papers. Good luck!

Damn, what is it with students today? Do they even have libraires at colleges anymore? You know, that building with all the books and journals? Here's a thought -- why don't you walk down to that building, walk inside, go to the area where they have all the journals, and START READING! I'm sure at a major university like Clemson you can get every scientific journal published. I bet if you show the person at the front desk your student ID they'll even let you take them back to your room! Oh joy!

They ought to just start giving out college diplomas in breakfast cereals.

I did a similar project for Biomechanics (~qualitative video analysis comparing barefoot vs. shod running, and talking about how that influences risks for injuries). I'd suggest the books "Explosive Running" by Yessis and "Better Training for Distance Runners" by Coe and Martin.... both books talk about the phases of the running cycles and the different muscles/movements with each phase. I'd also suggest "Lore of Running" by Noakes, which has a comprehensive section on running injuries with references (and talks about the mechanics behind various injuries).

You could also check the following link (~I did several posts with references about shoes/barefoot running and how that impacts mechanics, etc.):

http://www.coolrunning.com/forums/Forum36/HTML/001040-2.shtml

Lastly, I'd recommend searching PubMed for Hardin EC; Nigg BM; Alexander RM; De Wit B; Clarke TE; and Robbins SE.

I recommend... wait for it... wait for it...

The POSE website!!! ;)

Its important to let gravity pull you in running! bwahahahah

Sh*t for Brains,

While I do appreciate your opinion (I'm at the library right now with a giant stack of books on Biomechanics and running) I specifically posted on this thread in search for Academic journals. You see, since these are published on such a rapid basis (weekly, monthly) libraries will often not have physical copies available. Instead, abstracts from certain articles will be posted online and you will have to subscribe to the journal or purchase said article, so on and so forth.

While pouring through an extensive text such as a book is good and dandy, an academic journal will often have articles that are much more specific to the topic which I am researching. You will often times not find specific information such as cutting edge technology for prosthetics and injury repair in a book. Writing a book is a lengthy process, and in a field like Bioengineering (which is growing explosively) new works is published almost daily. Now, why take the time to write a book on cutting edge technology when it is going to be obsolete by the time it gets out to the public.

By the way I appreciate everyone who has taken the time to truthfully try and help me out. It's great to have your support and help. Some of these resources I've never heard before. Our library does have an electronic database, but as I stated before, you often only get to see the abstract which helps me almost not at all.

Anyway Sh*t for brains, next time you decide to attack somebody, please tak the time to pull your mouth off your own balls, take a look around, realize you are ignorant, and keep your own council.

-Thomas

pwned

ooh 3rd degree burn with dick on the face...

sometimes ...people are ignorant

Just forget about it man...

I bet he learned his lesson...

Thomas wrote:

Anyway Sh*t for brains, next time you decide to attack somebody, please tak the time to pull your mouth off your own balls, take a look around, realize you are ignorant, and keep your own council.

-Thomas

In your angry diatribe that another poster was "ignorant," (and I agree with you by the way), you said "council" when you meant to say "counsel."

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Read everything you can by Prof R McNeil Alexander.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22r+mcneil+alexander%22&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N

out Mel Siff's Supertraining, he has a small section on footwear and injury's. Site's several scientifc studies.

Here's a paper on the evolution of humans and how we are humans due to distance running...

Nature 432, 345-352 (18 November 2004) Endurance running and the evolution of Homo (this is the genus, not the orientation)

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7015/full/nature03052.html

Clemson should have a nature subscription.

Part of doing a term paper is learning how to search the literature.

Often, one needs to find a key paper or two to really get going.

I suggest that you look for articles by the Willems group:

Willems TM, Witvrouw E, De Cock A, et al.

Gait-related risk factors for exercise-related lower-leg pain during shod running

MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE 39 (2): 330-339 FEB 2007

They have conducted one of the largest prospective studies. i.e. they screened a large group (n=400) and then waited to see who got injured. Many other studies look only at people who are already injured.

Unfortunately, you will see that this is not an easy problem to solve. It is very difficult to ascribe some particular biomechanical variable to the likelihood of getting injured.

Web of Science really is an amazing data base if you have access.

Also, be sure to use "wild card" * while searching.

e.g. search for injur* and that will find injury, injuries etc.

"Evaluation of lower extremity overuse injury potential in runners" by Hreljac, Marshall, Hume published in "Medicine and sport science in sports and exercise" vol 32 no 9 year 2000

Haha, yeah. I made a couple spelling mistakes too...