Consultancy service for the design of human performance monitoring systems compliant to medical devices directives.

Research into biomechanics of the human knee. Research areas include biomechanical instrumentation, rehabilitation and informal lectures in the medical school.

UNIVERSITY WORK RESPONSIBILITIES;University funded three-year post as Research Fellow studying knee joint and muscles forces.Team leader for three year aids project on seating for the disabled, supervising J. Munton and J. Stowe.Team leader for two and a half-year project on evaluating the problems encountered in stair climbing by the elderly and arthritic, supervising J.Munton and J. Stowe.Supervising two final year H.N.D. students working at R.O.F. Leeds in the design and construction of a new exercising machine. Mechanical Engineering Department, Leeds Metropolitan University.Joint supervisor of the design, development and running of a kinesiology laboratory at the Rheumatism Research Unit.Design, development and building of a sleep laboratory at the Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate, 1982, and piloting an initial feasibility study on sleep research to be carried out at the Royal Bath Hospital.Work with Japanese orthopaedic surgeons on various projects, in particular with Dr. Nakamura on the biomechanical effects of Bandi's operation.M.Phil. supervisor to Dr. R. Mirza from Iraq on an investigation into quadriceps and hamstring muscle strength and endurance testing on normal and arthritis sufferers.Patents:Digital Myometer and Pinch/Grip Analyser (a new technique to overcome lever arm effect in measuring muscle Strength).A new Bluetooth technology to allow multiple devices to be monitored in real time and in parallel (i.e. to allowup to 12 Bluetooth modules to be received simultaneously for medical measurements)