The Joint Action Research (JAR) Laboratory is located in the School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University. The JAR lab contains equipment for the analysis of human movement, biomechanics and muscle activation characteristics. We are interested in understanding how lower limb injuries and diseases to the muscles, bones or joints alter how people move, the effects of conservative and surgical treatments on movement based outcomes and the use of biomechanical outcomes in clinical decisions making.

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Optical motion capture for tracking reflective "marker" tragectories in three dimensional space

8 OQUS cameras. See Qualisys website for more details.

Optical motion capture of reflective markers in three dimensional space. These cameras are portable and can be set up anywhere that stable tripods can be assembled.

6 cameras. See Qualisys website for details

A walking treadmill that provides the opportunity to record three dimensional ground reaction forces from two independent forceplates. Also has the capacity to pitch forward/backward as if walking up and down hill. Treadmill can also translate side to side. These functions can be manually applied or programmed through a MATLAB Interface.

Dual Belt Instrumented treadmill

Pitch 10 degrees at rates up to 40 degrees/second

Sway 5 cm at rates 0.1m/s

Recording of muscle activation voltages from the surface of the skin.

JAR lab has 6 8-channel units. See Bortec Biomedical Inc website for details

Assess static balance characteristics