Research Interests

• Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES)
• Movement (Gait) Analysis
• Prosthetics and Orthotics

Publications

Hughes MP, Banks DJ, Ewins DJ. Action potential velocity detection using a penetrating microprobe. Meas. Sci. Technol. 16, N7-N10, 2005.

Wills A, Ewins DJ, Ramasamy A, Etherington J. A Prospective Study Of Lower Extremity Kinematics During Gait In Persons With Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome. Medicine & Science in Sport and Exercise, 37 (5), 2005

Durham S, Eve L, Stevens C and Ewins D. Effect of functional electrical stimulation on asymmetries in gait of children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Physiotherapy, 90, 82-90, 2004.

Ghoussayni S, Stevens C, Durham S, Ewins D. Assessment and validation of a simple automated method for the detection of gait events and intervals. Gait and Posture, 20, 266-272, 2004.

Moser D, Catalfamo PC, Ghoussayni SN, Ewins DJ. Real time description of lower limb motion for nonanalytical neuroprosthetic control applications. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, Bournemouth, UK, 6-9 September 2004, 138-140.

Parkhouse JG, Ewins DJ. Vertical dynamic loading produced by people moving to a beat. Proceedings of ISMA2004, Leuven, Belgium, 20-22 September 2004.

Wills AK, Ramasamy A, Ewins DJ, Etherington, JE. The Incidence and Occupational outcome of Overuse Anterior Knee Pain during Army Recruit training. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 150, 264-269, 2004.

Banks DJ, Balachandran W, Richards PR, Ewins D. Instrumentation to evaluate neural signal recording properties of micromachined microelectrodes inserted in invertebrate nerve. Physiol Meas., 23(2), 437-448, 2002.

Ghoussayni S, Stevens C, Durham S, Ewins DJ. Gait event inspection: a comparison of force platform, visual inspection and kinematic algorithm based methods. 7th Annual Meeting, Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society, Chattanooga, USA, April 2002.

Eve L, Durham S, Stevens C, Ewins D. The effect of functional electrical stimulation on the gait of children with cerebral palsy. ESMAC, Rome, Italy, October 2001.

Ghoussayni S, Henty J, Wood D, Ewins D. The use of a gyroscope in FES foot-drop correction systems. 7th Vienna International Workshop on Functional Electrostimulation: Basics, Technology, Application, September 2001, 90-93

Ensell G, Banks DJ, Richards PR, Balachandran W, Ewins DJ. Silicon based microelectrodes for neurophysiology, micromachined from silicon-on-insulator wafers. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 38:2, 175-179, March 2000.

Hynd D, Hughes SC, Ewins DJ. The development of a long, dual-platform triaxial walkway for the measurement of forces and temporal-spatial Data in the clinical assessment of gait. Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 214:H, 193-201, 2000.

Professional Activities

• Consultant Clinical Scientist, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, London.
• Member, Research and Development Committee, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton
• Member, CMAS Committee (Clinical Movement Analysis Society UK and Ireland)
• Member, Scientific Committee, INSPIRE Foundation
• Subject Leader (Cerebral Palsy), FESnet