GAMMA Congress in Heidelberg
In the beginning of March, the three PhD students Bernhard Guggenberger, Willi Koller and Elias Wallnöfer presented their research at the GAMMA congress in Heidelberg. The aim of GAMMA (“Gesellschaft für die Analyse menschlicher Motorik und ihre klinische Anwendung”) is to establish instrumental gait and movement analysis as a common examination method in clinical diagnostics. Ass-Prof Hans Kainz accompanied the students and chaired a session on “joint center determination”.
The congress was located at the orthopedic hospital of Heidelberg, a place of regarded expertise where all the theory comes into practice. This offered a welcoming atmosphere for exchange of knowledge and interesting talks. Furthermore, exhibitors presented their newest technologies for motion capture including a live demo on marker-less tracking. In addition to the breaks at the conference, the evening events in the historic downtown provided many networking opportunities for the group.
Prior to the congress the students also attended the GAMMA advanced course on instrumental 3D gait analysis. Here they deepened their knowledge on data collection and skills in data interpretation. The combination of lectures and practical sessions with case studies on clinical gait analysis data provided an interesting insight into the process of clinical decision making and its outcomes.
We come home from this congress with many new inspirations and are very pleased to congratulate Bernhard on the award for the best presentation on “Different walking strategies impact patella cartilage pressure in individuals with patellofemoral instability” and Willi reaching 4th place with his topic “Net joint moments versus internal joint loading: Can we trust correlations between joint moments and contact forces from generic-scaled models?”.
All abstracts got published in Gait & Posture, full texts are available in our “publications” section!
Koller, W., Kranzl, A., Baca, A., Kainz, H., 2023. Net joint moments versus internal joint loading: Can we trust correlations between joint moments and contact forces from generic-scaled models? Gait & Posture 100, 3–4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.11.022
Wallnöfer, E.K., Kaufmann, P., Koller, W., Kainz, H., 2023. Influences of EMG-informed musculoskeletal simulation approaches on estimations of lower limb muscle and joint contact forces. Gait & Posture 100, 7–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.11.024
Guggenberger, B., Horsak, B., Habersack, A., Smith, C.R., Kainz, H., Svehlik, M., 2023. Different walking strategies impact patella cartilage pressure in individuals with patellofemoral instability. Gait & Posture 100, 9–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaitpost.2022.11.025
