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Exploring lifting coordination in chronic low back pain using modified vector c...

The gait profile score to assess the effects of ankle-foot orthoses in the gait...

Introduction: The ankle-foot orthosis is the most common non-invasive therapeutic intervention used to correct gait deviations, especially in children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). Several studies demonstrated that its use improved spatio-temporal and kinematic outcomes. However, biomechanical reports can be complex and may need experience to correctly interpret the results. Gait deviation indices, such as the Gait...

A review of additive manufacturing studies for producing customized ankle-foot ...

Ankle-foot orthoses (AFO) are prescribed to improve the patient’s quality of life. Supporting weak muscles or restraining spastic muscles leads to smoother and more stable locomotion. Commonly, AFO are made using thermoplastic vacuum forming, which requires a long time for production and has limited design options. Additive manufacturing (AM) can solve this problem, leading to a faster and cheaper solution. Thi...

Effects of ankle foot orthoses on the gait patterns in children with spastic bi...

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of motor disability in children and can cause severe gait deviations. The sagittal gait patterns classification for children with bilateral CP is an important guideline for the planning of the rehabilitation process. Ankle foot orthoses should improve the biomechanical parameters of pathological gait in the sagittal plane. Methods: A systematic search of ...

Reliability of lower extremity kinematics in three-dimensional gait measurement...

Background: Cerebral Palsy is a complex pathology that describes a group of motor disorders with different presentations and functional levels. Three-dimensional gait analysis is used in the assessment of CP children to assist in clinical decision-making and assessing outcomes in the rehabilitation process. Due to the CP intra-subject gait variability, it’s crucial to access the repeated gait measurements to ev...

Validation of quantitative gait analysis systems for Parkinson’s disease for us...

Background: Gait impairments are among the most common and impactful symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Recent technological advances aim to quantify these impairments using low-cost wearable systems for use in either supervised clinical consultations or long-term unsupervised monitoring of gait in ecological environments. However, very few of these wearable systems have been validated comparatively to a cri...

Sheep Gait Biomechanics and the Assessment of Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Sys...

In recent years, sheep have been reported as the ideal animal model to study osteoporosis, hence it is important to identify instruments, tools and ideal parameters needed to assess the effects of different treatments. In previous studies conducted in other animal models with osteoporosis, the most common parameters used for evaluation concerned primarily bone properties, such as the dual X-ray absorptiometry. ...

Diastasis recti during pregnancy and postpartum

Diastasis recti abdominis (DRA) or increased inter-rectus distance (IRD) is characterized by the separation of the rectus abdominis muscles. It has its onset during pregnancy and the first weeks following childbirth. The reliability of the instruments used to assess this condition is unclear. There is scant knowledge on the prevalence and risk factors for development of the condition. There is little evidence o...

The Role of Ultrasound Imaging of Musculotendinous Structures in the Elderly Po...

Ultrasound (US) is a noninvasive and real-time method that allows the evaluating muscles and tendons. The enhanced echo-intensity (EI) on ultrasonography images of skeletal muscle is believed to reflect changes in muscle quality (MQ), and these changes accompany aging. Also related to aging, and that may more severely affect women than men, is the well-known loss of skeletal muscle mass. Often associated with t...

Biomechanics modeling for functional analysis: Sheep model

The aim of the present manuscript was to provide information on the suitability of using ovine as models for conducting in vivo bone tissue engineering studies, regarding the biomechanical considerations. Despite the need of knowledge of the animal model used for bone tissue research a good planning and study design is equal important. The purpose of this review is to contribute to extrapolation of reliable dat...