Tag - Gravity

posts discussing moving within the gravitational effect

Using Pressure Sensors to Evaluate Gait

When I started doing bodywork it didn’t take long before I began to realize that there was a significant correlation between how my clients sit, stand, and move and their complaints. Early in my practice, educating clients on stance and...

Greater Stability through Instability

A design constraint of animals is that they are inherently unstable in the direction they want to move in, and stable in all other vectors. Overcoming stability in the direction they want to go instigates movement, and having expended energy...

Reflex Integration and Sprike

connects Sprike scores, indicating movement smoothness, with reflex integration, suggesting higher scores reflect better reflex efficiency. It explores reflexes as key to survival and skill, proposing Sprike feedback as a tool for enhancing...

Gravity

explores gravity's role in human physiology and movement, advocating for a physics-informed approach to improving movement efficiency without needing deep scientific knowledge

Reference Frames for Stance and Gait

Our normal perception of our surroundings, especially in developed countries, is that we move about inside a spatial cube, a box with length, breadth, and height. This perception is reinforced by the machined flat surfaces upon which we engage...

Evaluating How We Interact with Gravity

Our reflexes, qualities of the tensile fabric of our connective tissue matrix, muscle strength, and conceptual framework influence how we move. Our characteristics of movement can be captured with Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) in the three...

Curves, Cables, and Coordinates: Navigating...

In the context of General Relativity, our understanding of motion, stability, and interaction with gravity undergoes a profound transformation from the notions embedded within an Aristotelian or even Newtonian framework. The relativistic...

Misperception of the Gravitational Effect is...

The model of the gravitational force we employ, as we move about, is deeply embedded within our social construct. This model can be described thus: “Gravity pulls us downward and we have to push ourselves upward against this force to move...