Spinal Movement Biomechanics

Diseases of the spine are common and the causes are often not fully understood. Our research contributes to a better understanding of spinal disorders. We evaluate existing and new treatment approaches and can thus derive recommendations for physiotherapy practice.

Diseases of the spine are common, and the causes are often not fully understood. Our research helps us better understand spinal diseases. We assess existing and new treatment approaches and derive recommendations for the physiotherapeutic practice. 

We use the Bern Movement Lab infrastructure for our research.

Other employees

Come join our team

For master's theses

Please contact Professor Stefan Schmid to learn about current opportunities for participation in the framework of a master’s thesis.

Current master theses proposals:

For PhD theses

We currently do not have any open doctoral positions.

Projects

Completed projects

Partnerships

In the media

The media repeatedly pick up on our research work and refer to it. You can see a selection of articles here:

Software and databases

  • Personalizable full-body models with a detailed thoracolumbar spine (freely available OpenSim models and MATLAB code for download on SimTK)
  • Full-body models with detailed thoracolumbar spine for children and adolescents (freely available for download on the project hosting platform SimTK)
  • Spinal kinematics during gait in healthy individuals across different age groups (C3D-files freely available for download)

Publications