The Importance of Variation In Human Movement | Dr. Nick Stergiou | TEDxUNO

It is natural to think that we should strive for perfection in all things. However, when it comes to human movement that is not always the case. Variation is not only essential and beneficial, but it is truly the spice of life.

Dr. Nick Stergiou is the Distinguished Community Research Chair in Biomechanics and Professor, as well as the Director of the Biomechanics Research Building and the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

His research focuses on understanding variability inherent in human movement. He is an international authority in the study of Nonlinear Dynamics and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Stergiou’s research spans from infant development to older adult fallers, and has impacted training techniques of surgeons and treatment and rehabilitation techniques of pathologies, such as peripheral arterial disease. He has received more 30 million dollars in personal funding from NIH, NASA, NSF, the NIDRR/US Department of Education, and many other agencies

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