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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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Amrita Dutta, Scott P. Breloff, Dilruba Mahmud, Fei Dai, Erik W. Sinsel, Christopher M. Warren and John Z. Wu
Awkward kneeling in sloped shingle installation operations exposes roofers to knee musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks. To address the varying levels of risk associated with different phases of shingle installation, this research investigated utilizing ...
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Enze Shao, Qichang Mei, Tongjun Ye, Bálint Kovács, Julien S. Baker, Wei Liu and Yaodong Gu
Interval running methodologies simulate competition and training conditions, with the aim of enhancing an athletes? ability to cope with constant deceleration, acceleration, and sudden changes in direction, as associated athletic and performance challeng...
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Michele Conconi, Filippo De Carli, Matteo Berni, Nicola Sancisi, Vincenzo Parenti-Castelli and Giuseppe Monetti
The in-vivo quantification of knee motion in physiological loading conditions is paramount for the understanding of the joint?s natural behavior and the comprehension of articular disorders. Dynamic MRI (DMRI) represents an emerging technology that makes...
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Hadeel Alsirhani, Graham Arnold and Weijie Wang
Background: While cross-legged-sitting (CLS) posture is widely practised in some communities, its biomechanical effect on the lower limbs is not clear. This study aimed to investigate whether CLS would affect biomechanical parameters in lower limbs durin...
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Max Böhme, Hans-Peter Köhler, Robert Thiel, Jens Jäkel, Johannes Zentner and Maren Witt
A novel exoskeleton robotic system was developed to assist stair climbing. This active demonstrator consists of a motor with a cable system, various sensors, and a control system with a power supply. The objective of this preliminary study is a biomechan...
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Periklis Tzanetis, Marco A. Marra, René Fluit, Bart Koopman and Nico Verdonschot
The proposed methodology provides orthopedic surgeons with quantitative data on the sensitivity of muscle, ligament, and joint compressive forces to tibial polyethylene insert thickness variations and can be further developed to optimize navigated or rob...
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Jessica Hembus, Felix Ambellan, Stefan Zachow and Rainer Bader
Currently, new materials for knee implants need to be extensively tested but such tests are expensive in a knee wear simulator in a realized design. However, using a rolling-sliding test bench, these materials can be examined under the same test conditio...
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Alberto Encarnación-Martínez, Pedro Pérez-Soriano, Roberto Sanchis-Sanchis, Rafael Berenguer-Vidal and Antonio García-Gallart
Fatigue causes kinematics modifications during running, and it could be related to injuries. The aim was to identify and compare the effects of central and peripheral fatigue on angular kinematics and spatiotemporal parameters during running. Angular kin...
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Hassan Sadeghi, Seyed Sadredin Shojaedin, Ali Abbasi, Elham Alijanpour, Marcus Fraga Vieira, Zdenek Svoboda and Kianoush Nazarpour
Falling is one of the most common causes of hip fracture and death in older adults. A comparison of the biomechanics of the gait in fallers and non-fallers older adults, especially joint coordination and coordination variability, enables the understandin...
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