We plan to answer the question of how the metatarsals, ankle, knee, full leg to hip joint differ in the motions of sitting on a stationary bicycle and standing on a stationary bicycle. We will be putting markers on the metatarsals, ankles, knees, hips, and shoulder looking at the leg segments between the foot and ankle, ankle and knee, and the knee and hip. This question is interesting to us since one of our group members has had both knees reconstructed. She has spent considerable physical therapy time on the bicycle and has experienced the difference when she had to stand for therapy on the bicycle versus sitting on the bicycle. We will be filming the subject from the right side concentration on the right foot, ankle, knee, hip, and shoulder in the sagittal plane. The left leg, though seen in some of the camera angles, will not be focused on.
Kristin Skaar
kskaar@umich.edu
Naomi Hutchinson
nhutchin@umich.edu
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The University of Michigan, Division of KinesiologyDecember, 2000
©1996 Melissa Gross