I would like to thank the ISB for the generous Congress Travel Grant. I feel very fortunate to have attended the conference in
In addition to these eleven talks I listened to approximately one fifth of the 430 other presentations and presented a poster entitled âKinematics of the upper and lower extremities in three-dimensions during ergometer rowingâ in one of the poster sessions. These presentations, especially the five excellent award sessions, have made me feel motivated to return to my computer and continue with my own work.
I found the sessions on locomotion and motion capture to have presentations about data collection and error minimisation and the sessions on orthopaedics to have some papers about joint modelling and in vivo force calculation. These were the most relevant to my own doctoral work that will take the kinematics, that I have measured and presented at the ISB conference, and input them into joint models of the metatarsalphalangeal, tibiotalar and tibiofemoral joints. I am partitioning net joint moments into muscle, ligament and joint contact forces. I hope to determine normal forces acting on the body during ergometer rowing and apply this to the development of control systems that will enable spinal cord injured patients to row the ergometer under functional electrical stimulation.
The electronic abstract submission, conference registration, audiovisual presentations and social activities were all extremely well organised. The facilities of the ETH, the gaststätten, kunstgalerien and kirchen of the city of
Sincerely,
Suzanne Halliday
17 July, 2001
Department of Physical Therapy
University of
100 Penn Street
Baltimore ,
