Hello, I have been reading Benno Nigg’s new text book entitled “Biomechanics of Sport Shoes” and I am particularly interested in his “preferred movement path” paradigm. Interestingly, he seems to invoke an information-processing theoretical perspective by suggesting that the “preferred movement path” is “pre-programmed”. Perhaps a better way of looking at the “preferred movement path” is by adopting a dynamical systems theoretical framework, which basically suggests that patterns of human movement are a product of self-organising processes and constraints, with constraints being boundaries, limitations or design features that restrict the motion of individual degrees of freedom
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Nigg’s "Preferred Movement Path" Paradigm
