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Lei Sun, Honglei An, Hongxu Ma, Qing Wei and Jialong Gao
Lower limb knee?ankle prostheses can effectively assist above-knee amputees in completing their basic daily activities. This study explored methods for estimating the joint kinematics of intelligent lower limb prostheses to better adapt them to the walki...
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Manuel García-Sánchez, Paloma García-Robles, María Catalina Osuna-Pérez, Rafael Lomas-Vega, Esteban Obrero-Gaitán and Irene Cortés-Pérez
Immersive and non-immersive virtual reality-based rehabilitation (VRBR) is effective in improving knee pain and function, dynamic balance, and knee flexion range of motion and extension strength after total knee arthroplasty, in comparison to conventiona...
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Letizia Castelli, Chiara Iacovelli, Siria Ciccone, Valerio Geracitano, Claudia Loreti, Augusto Fusco, Lorenzo Biscotti, Luca Padua and Silvia Giovannini
Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition in the elderly population and, with falls, represents a major public health problem. Patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis often have poor balance, which is considered an important risk factor for falls. In...
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Dias Tina Thomas, Ashish John Prabhakar, Charu Eapen, Vivek D. Patel, Vijayakumar Palaniswamy, Molly Cynthia Dsouza, Shruthi R and Yogeesh Dattakumar Kamat
Athletic injuries are commonly implicated in the development of early osteoarthritic (EOA) changes in the knee. These changes have a significant impact on athletic performance, and therefore the early detection of EOA is paramount. The objective of the s...
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Xiaoping Zhang, Yitong Wu, Huijiang Wang, Fumiya Iida and Li Wang
Animals have evolved to adapt to complex and uncertain environments, acquiring locomotion skills for diverse surroundings. To endow a robot?s animal-like locomotion ability, in this paper, we propose a learning algorithm for quadruped robots based on dee...
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Ilie Onu, Daniela Matei, Dragos-Petrica Sardaru, Dan Cascaval, Ana Onu, Robert Gherghel, Ionela Lacramioara Serban, George Danut Mocanu, Daniel Andrei Iordan, Gabriel Murariu and Anca-Irina Galaction
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the most common public health problems which cannot be cured and ultimately leads to disability. Current management is largely limited to the treatment of the symptoms. To avoid the late stages of KOA that lead to knee...
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Xueqing Wu, Baoqing Pei, Wei Wang, Da Lu, Lei Guo and Peiyan He
There is a high risk of serious injury to the lower extremities during a human drop landing. Prophylactic knee and ankle braces are commonly used to reduce injury by restraining the motion of joints. However, braces that restrain joint range of motion (R...
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Xuanzhen Cen, Zhenghui Lu, Julien S. Baker, Bíró István and Yaodong Gu
Although values of arch stiffness index (ASI) have been used to evaluate arch structure and injury susceptibility, investigations are limited regarding the influence of ASI on biomechanical characteristics during gait termination, which involves a challe...
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Krystyna Hejdysz, Jagoda Goslinska, Agnieszka Warenczak, Joanna Dudzinska, Ewa Adamczyk, Pawel Sip, Jaroslaw Goslinski, Piotr Owczarek, Adam Wozniak and Przemyslaw Lisinski
Reduced range of motion is one of the main symptoms of knee osteoarthritis. These deficits are believed to have a negative impact on activities of daily living. The aim of the study was to examine how manual therapy and closed-chain kinematic exercises a...
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Stefano Zaffagnini, Angelo Boffa, Luca Andriolo, Davide Reale, Maurizio Busacca, Alessandro Di Martino and Giuseppe Filardo
Different surgical procedures have been proposed over the past few years to treat cartilage lesions. The aim of this study was to compare mosaicplasty and matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation (MACT) at long-term follow-up. Forty-three p...
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