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Re: [RC] [Consider This] Gait Analysis// eadweard muybridge - Beverley H. Kane, MDEadweard Muybridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge did the first motion studies that, among other things, documented the moment of suspension in the trot--did them w/ Leland Stanford. Good description of the work and the rocky relationship between Muybridge & L. Stanford in "Horses at Work" There is a plaque on a big rock here at Stanford's Red Barn equestrian center commemorating the work. Beverley _____________________________________________ Beverley Kane, MD Program Director, Medicine and Horses Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine 1215 Welch Road - Modular H Palo Alto, CA 94305-5408 650-868-3379 http://familymed.stanford.edu/ See Emmy Award winning Stanford "Medicine & Horses" on NBC-TV http://www.horsensei.com/nbcnews.html ______________________________________________________ On 3/14/09 9:20 AM, "Endurance Net" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Sisu West Ranch wrote:"...a long journey over a relatively short span of time in the world of equine gait analysis. The first studies utilized high- speed cameras and a treadmill and took place at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences some 35 years ago..." Not quite true. The first person (whose name escapes me, but it was sometime around 1870*) to figure out a way to take a series of photos and then show them one after another thus inventing "motion pictures", took photos of a galloping horse, thus showing the relative positions of the legs at the gallop. If you look at old drawings of galloping horses, you often find them in the "flying gallop" position with front legs straight out in front, and back legs straight out in back. These first "gait analysis" movies showed that this position does not happen. Ed *I know that a little research using Wikipedia or Google would produce the reference, but I am leaving that as an exercise for the reader.** **I always suspected that my professors were just lazy when they did this to me.1887: http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/sequence-of-a-race-horse- galloping-1887.html it was more to prove the photography tech than the horse gait though... we've come a long way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDuJS1VeReI jt =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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