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Bicycle Seat Pressure Testing and Analysis

Solving a Colorado Ski Fatality

Injury Mitigation Produced By Pole Padding on Ski Terrain

Determination of Snowboarder vs. Snowboard Impact Configuration


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Proceedings of the XIXth International
Congress on Biomechanics
Dunedin, New Zealand
July 6-12, 2003

Injury Mitigation Produced by Protective Pole Padding on Ski Terrain

Determination of Snowboarder vs. Snowboarder Impact Configuration Using Injury Biomechanics

 

   


Proceedings of the XVIIIth International
Congress on Biomechanics
Zurich, Switzerland
July 8-13, 2001

First Rib Fracture Due to Cervical Hyperextension: A Clue to Solving a Colorado Ski Fatality

An Investigation of Bicycle Seat Pressure and Pudendal Nerve Entrapment Mechanism During Recumbant Stationary Cycling

 

   


Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 1995

The Effect of Clipless Float Design on Shoe/Pedal Interface Kinetics: Implications for Overuse Knee Injuries During Cycling

 

   


Sports Medicine, 1994

Biomechanical Factors Associated With Shoe/Pedal Interfaces: Implications for Injury

 

   


International Journal of Sport Biomechanics, 1992

A Dual Piezoelectric Bicycle Pedal With Multiple Shoe-Pedal Interface Compatibility

 

   


Proceedings of the XIVth International
Congress on Biomechanics
Paris, France
July 4-8,1993

Cycling Knee Pain and Shoe/Pedal Interface Kinetics

The Effect of Shoe/Pedal Interface and Load on Pedalling Kinetics in Cycling

 

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Past Company Research

Bicycle-Rider Testing

While at UCLA, Jeff Wheeler worked under the direction of Robert J. Gregor, Ph.D. in the Biomechanics Laboratory and contributed to the development of the UCLA force pedals that were specially instrumented and designed to collect applied shoe/pedal forces across various pedal interface designs. The UCLA force pedals have been utilized by Dr. Gregor, Mr. Wheeler, and several other researchers across the country to measure pedal forces and assess cycling knee injuries, elite rider pedal dynamics, and various abnormal lower extremity functions due to neurological pathologies.


UCLA force pedal with traditional toe strap design

UCLA force pedal with clipless Timeâ interface

UCLA Biomechanics Laboratory with stationary road racing bicycle and force pedal set-up.

Elite tri-athlete subject riding in the lab while the UCLA riding force pedals collect shoe/pedal interface dynamics.

Elite road racer subject riding at the
U.S. Olympic Training Center while the UCLA force pedals collect shoe/pedal interface dynamics.

UCLA force pedal with clipless Shimanoâ interface.
 

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