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lab mission.

The general mission of this laboratory is to provide new understanding of the dynamical aspects of human movement via multidisciplinary approaches. In particular, our aim is to achieve the following specific objectives:

• To quantitatively characterize the complex behavior in healthy and abnormal movement patterns via innovative non-linear analysis.
• Educate and train students, clinicians, and basic scientists, so that they may apply concepts of human movement variability in their careers as educators and researchers.
• To improve our understanding of basic healthy and abnormal movement patterns using an interdisciplinary approach in clinically oriented research.
• To develop new diagnostic and prognostic tests and related biotechnology for a variety of movement disorders and aging.

To meet these goals, the laboratory is equipped with three state-of-the-art motion analysis systems, which incorporate three-dimensional digital video capture, force platforms, multiple force transducers, electromyography, electrogoniometry, and two Biodex Isokinetic testing devices.