Biomechanical measurements of movement can help predict and prevent injury, monitor disease progression, and inform clinical interventions. Traditionally, these measurements require expensive equipment and trained personnel to process, aggregate, and share these data, which limits access to these methods and studies to a small number of participants. Our team has created two new tools –OpenCap and AddBiomechanics– which have enabled hundreds of researchers to more quickly and easily collect, analyze, and share movement data.

• OpenCap - Musculoskeletal forces from smartphone videos. (Uhlrich et al., 2023) measures three-dimensional human movement using smartphone videos.
• AddBiomechanics (Werling et al., 2023) automatically processes motion capture files to generate a scaled musculoskeletal model and compute joint kinematics and kinetics.

In this workshop, participants will learn how these new tools have been validated and how they expedite lab-based and out-of-lab studies of hundreds of participants, with applications to movement screening, injury prevention, and monitoring rehabilitation. Through a series of hands-on examples and demonstrations, workshop participants will learn how to incorporate OpenCap and AddBiomechanics in their research. The workshop will help participants build expertise in common workflows for simulation and biomechanical analysis and provide guidelines for obtaining high quality data.

Location: Chicago, IL, Monday, 12 May 2025 at 08:15 - 09:45

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