Living Research
Most research sits still on a page. These pages let you question it — choose a profile, move a slider, hover a result, and see what two decades of clinical measurement actually show. The body is not a collection of isolated parts; neither is this data.
Each page is built directly on a research dataset, updated as the work grows. They describe patterns of association within the cohorts studied — they are shared for education and discussion, not as clinical advice or individual prognosis.
LLD Gait Risk Explorer
How musculoskeletal presentations tilt when a leg-length discrepancy meets a locked phase of gait. Choose the discrepancy, the gait pattern and the population, and read the prevalence ratios — or work backwards from a condition to the discrepancy behind it.
Open the ExplorerFailed Load Transfer Explorer
When the sacroiliac joint fails to self-lock in standing, which side fails — the leg that walks well passively, or the leg locked in a phase of gait? And is it the side the person was in pain on? Ask the questions yourself, with the not-assessed cases excluded from the start.
Open the ExplorerIPC Recruitment & Landing Patterns
When one side of the pelvis is locked in a phase of gait, can that leg still recruit its muscle, produce force and land well? Eight participants, each their own control: quadriceps strength, the interpolated twitch technique, peak ground reaction force and 3D landing kinematics, impaired leg against functional leg.
Open the pageUsing and citing this work
Everything on these pages is original research by Dr Jo Abbott, PhD, and is shared openly so that clinicians, students and researchers can question it. It is released under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, which in plain terms means:
- Quote, screenshot, teach from and link to it freely — with attribution to Dr Jo Abbott and a link back to the page.
- Please don't sell it or build it into a commercial product without asking. Courses, apps and paid materials need permission first.
- Please don't alter the figures or re-cut the data and present the result as the original. If you would like to re-analyse or extend the work, get in touch — collaboration is welcome.
- Individual participants are never identifiable. Retrospective cohorts appear in aggregate only; laboratory participants appear by study code. Please keep it that way in anything you share.
To cite a page, use the suggested citation printed at the top of that page, or this general form:
Abbott, J. (2026). [Page title] [Living Research]. drjoabbott.com/living-research/ — accessed [date].If you use the work in a publication, a talk or teaching, I would love to know — send a line. It helps the research grow, and it helps me point people to what you have built on it.
About this data
The explorers summarise retrospective clinical cohorts in aggregate form only — no individual records are published. Ratios are exploratory prevalence ratios within a single cohort: they show where patterns sit, not proof of cause, and small groups carry wide confidence intervals. The laboratory study reports individual participants by study code only, with no identifying details. Each page carries its own methodology notes.
Questions about the research, or interested in collaborating? Get in touch.