CADENCE | Clinical Biomechanics & Ergonomics Engineering
The CADENCE (Clinical Biomechanics and Ergonomics Engineering) Core Facility provides support for innovative and pioneering interdisciplinary research in biomedical engineering, motion analysis and robotics.
We provide our expertise and services to clinical, biomedical and sport academic groups and industry, with a broad national and international network of the four constituent groups: “Robot-assisted Theragnostics”, “Functional Biomechanics”, “Paediatric Orthopaedic Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Modelling”, and “Spine Biomechanics”.
In a 210 m2 laboratory including separate reception and working desks, locker rooms and lavatory, the Core Facility members welcome you and your research team in a safe environment, in the best equipped motion analysis research center on the European continent with a capturing volume of 11m x 5m x 3m (L/W/H). The facility can also serve as a teaching and training center for courses on diagnostic and therapeutic technologies in the field of motion analysis and rehabilitation robotics.
We offer a wide range of state-of-the-art marker-based and markerless motion capture systems, in-floor force plates, an instrumented treadmill with adjustable incline and built-in force sensors, instrumented stairs with built-in force plates, inertial sensors for wearable motion capture, wireless surface electromyography, pressure insoles, an isokinetic dynamometer, and the novel 3D gait rehabilitation robot ‘The FLOAT’. Further personalized advanced data analytics and machine learning on movement analysis data may be provided.
With CADENCE, the acquired basic research can be translated directly into the clinical environments at the Center of Clinical Motion Analysis of the University Children’s Hospital of Basel (UKBB) and at the University Hospital Basel (USB) (orthopaedics, traumatology, spine surgery, neurology) also in close collaboration with the first Surgical Outcome Research Center (SORC) Basel in Switzerland.
Group Heads
Prof. Dr. Annegret Mündermann, Ph.D.
Scientific Lead CADENCE
Head Functional Biomechanics Adult Orthopaedics (DBE)
Head Orthopaedic Research with Focus on Functional Biomechanics (USB)
Research Group Leader (DKF)
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
University Hospital Basel
Functional Biomechanics Laboratory
Schanzenstrasse 55
CH-4056 Basel
PD Dr Cordula Netzer
Head of Spine Biomechanics (DBE)
Deputy Head Spine Center (USB)
Research Group Leader (DKF)
Department of Spine Surgery
University Hospital Basel
Spitalstrasse 21
4031 Basel, Switzerland
Phone: +41 61 32 87675
Prof. Dr. Heide Elke Viehweger
Medical Lead CADENCE
Head Clinical Biomechanics: Paediatric Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Modeling (DBE)
Deputy Head of Orthopaedics, Head Neuro-orthopaedics and Gait Laboratory (UKBB)
Research Group Leader (DKF)
Department of Orthopedics
University Children’s Hospital Both Basel (UKBB)
Spitalstrasse 33
CH-4031 Basel
Phone: +41 (0)61 704 18 02
PD Dr. Morgan Sangeux
Co-Head of Clinical Biomechanics: Paediatric Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Modeling (DBE)
Scientific and Technical Lead Gait Laboratory UKBB
Department of Orthopedics
University Children’s Hospital Both Basel (UKBB)
Spitalstrasse 33
CH-4031 Basel
Prof. Dr. Georg Rauter
Technical Lead CADENCE
Head of BIROMED-Lab, MIRACLEII Project, Robot-Assisted Theragnostics (DBE)
Gewerbestrasse 14
4123 Allschwil
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)61 207 54 70
User Board
- Georg Rauter, DBE
- Annegret Mündermann, USB/DBE
- Heide Elke Viehweger. UKBB/DBE/DKF
- Morgan Sangeux, UKBB
- Cordula Netzer, USB/DBE
- Nicolas Gerig, DBE
- Corina Nüesch, USB
- Beat Göpfert, DBE/UKBB
Technical Committee
- Linda Bühl, UKBB
- Eleonora Croci, DBE/USB
- Beat Göpfert, DBE/UKBB
- Georg Rauter, DBE
- Morgan Sangeux, UKBB/DBE
- Beat Fasel, DBE
Four Research Groups
