Staffordshire Conference on Clinical Biomechanics (SCCB)
9-10 April 2011

 

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We apologise for the error in some of the registration forms sent via post. The main conference is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday and the conference dinner is scheduled for Saturday night and not Friday.
As scheduled, EMG workshop will be held on Friday.

Dr Benno M. Nigg: University of Calgary, Canada.

Born in Switzerland, Dr. Nigg studied Nuclear Physics at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 1971, he started his activities in Biomechanics. In 1976, he became the Director of the Biomechanics Laboratory at the ETH Zurich. In 1981 Dr. Nigg accepted an invitation to move to the University of Calgary, where he founded, developed and was director of the Human Performance Laboratory, a multi-disciplinary Research Center concentrating on the study of the human body and its locomotion. Currently, this research center has close to 200 co-workers, working with micro- and macroscopic approaches on the understanding of movement and exercise. Dr. Nigg has received many awards and recognitions, including the Olympic Order, honorary degrees from the Universities of Salzburg and Innsbruck and an honorary professorship from the University of Shanghai. Dr. Nigg’s research concentrates on human locomotion with main emphasis on mobility and longevity and its application to movement related products such as orthoses, shoe insoles, sport shoes, surfaces and sport equipment. Dr. Nigg has collaborated with many major sport shoe and sport surface companies.

Lecture Titles:
•Orthotics and shoes – aligning the skeleton
•Unstable shoes

Dr Anton Arndt: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Toni’s academic life started with a BSc majoring in zoology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. After a few years travelling abroad, he returned Down Under and completed his MSc at the University of Wollongong in Australia. The MSc thesis was on the topic of knee injury mechanisms in alpine mogul skiing. Toni proceeded to the German Sports University in Cologne where he completed his PhD from 1993-1997. This work was the beginning of his interest in Achilles tendon biomechanics and also invasive, in vivo measuring techniques. Toni followed his wife to Sweden and has been at the Karolinska Institute since 1998. His present position combines biomechanical research in his biomechanics laboratory in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery with the duty of program director of Karolinska Institute’s podiatry education program.

He has published over 30 articles in international peer reviewed journals, primarily covering Achilles tendon biomechanics and foot kinematics. Toni is at present supervisor for five PhD students with various topics within musculoskeletal biomechanics. He is involved on the executive committees of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) and its subgroup on Footwear Biomechanics. Toni is at present the Secretary General of ISB.

He lives in Stockholm with his wife and three children and has outdoor sports, in particular alpine skiing and road cycling, as major interests.

Lecture Titles:
•Lab based biomechanical experiments: Are they useful in clinical interventions?
•Invasive, in vivo methodology in musculoskeletal biomechanics