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Clinical Biomechanics Award

CBiomech

 
This award recognizes outstanding new biomechanics research targeting a contemporary clinical problem, and is sponsored by Elsevier Science, Ltd., publishers of Clinical Biomechanics.

Selection from the top 10th percentile of abstracts submitted to the annual meeting. The award consists of an engraved plaque and a check for $500.

  • Eligibility
    • The award competition is open to scientists of any age and stage in their career (for example, undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and researchers) both in and outside the U.S. Candidates for the award must be the first or sole author on an abstract of original research submitted to the ASB annual meeting.
  • Submission Material and Application Instructions
    • Abstract of original research submitted (via regular call for abstracts ) to the ASB annual meeting.

Past Award Winners

Year
Awardee
Title
2008 Cheryl Hubley-Kozey Co-Activation Differences in Lower Limb Muscles Between Asymptomatic Controls and Those with Varying Degrees of Knee Osteoarthritis During Walking
2007 Martha Cammarata Evidence of gender specific motor templates to resist a valgus perturbation at the knee
2006 Brian Noehren Prospective Study of the Biomechanical Factors Associated with Iliotibial Band Syndrome
2005

Robert Siston

In-Vivo Passive Kinematics Of Osteoarthritic Knees
2004 Allison Arnold

Muscle-tendon lengths and velocities of the hamstrings after surgical lengthening to correct crouch gait
2003 Alaa Ahmed

Effect of age on detecting a loss of balance in a seated whole-body balancing task
2002 Karen Reed Thermal Finite Element Analysis of Osteocyte Kill Zones Achieved with a Cryo-Insult Probe
2001 Mark E. Nadzadi A database of living subject motion to examine posterior and anterior dislocation of total hip replacements
2000 Louis F. Draganich The effects of anti-depressants on obstructed and unobstructed gait in the healthy elderly
1999 Jonathan Dingwell Stride-to-stride variability in human walking is not “noise”
1998 Christopher Scifert Finite element analysis of a novel design approach to resist total hip dislocation
1997 Kevin McQuade Scapulothoracic muscle fatigue associated with alterations in scapulohumeral rhythm kinematics during maximum resistive shoulder elevation
1996 Kel Miyamot Biomechanics of belts - abdominal effects of abdominal belts on intra-abdominal pressure and intra-muscular pressure in the erector spinae muscles
1995 Geza F. Kogler The biomechanics of longitudinal arch support mechanisms in foot orthoses and their effect on plantar aponeurosis strain
1994 Rodney Bristol Non-uniformity of contact stress in total knee arthroplasty

 

 
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