Shawn Russell

About

Shawn Russell is currently the director of the Motion Analysis and Motor Performance Laboratory at the University of Virginia, oversees the day to day research operations of the laboratory and guides data collection and analysis. He has been conducting research using motion analysis for the last 18 years. This work has included the detection of motion events and the quantification of the kinetics and kinematics associated with tasks including; simple typically developed walking, pathological walking with and without assistive devices, scaling rock climbing walls, and predictive modeling of human movements. In addition his work is developing methods for detection, measure, and recognition of human movement in out of lab environments using state of the art IMU technology. More recently he has begun developing models and methods for the analysis of gait function in Lewis rats used in preclinical trials. These methods have enabled him to begin quantifying the effects of musculoskeletal injury and applied therapeutics on the movement function quality of their gait characteristics.