A review on design of upper limb exoskeletons

MA Gull, S Bai, T Bak - Robotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Exoskeleton robotics has ushered in a new era of modern neuromuscular rehabilitation
engineering and assistive technology research. The technology promises to improve the …

A review of current state-of-the-art control methods for lower-limb powered prostheses

R Gehlhar, M Tucker, AJ Young, AD Ames - Annual reviews in control, 2023 - Elsevier
Lower-limb prostheses aim to restore ambulatory function for individuals with lower-limb
amputations. While the design of lower-limb prostheses is important, this paper focuses on …

OpenCap: Human movement dynamics from smartphone videos

SD Uhlrich, A Falisse, Ł Kidziński… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Measures of human movement dynamics can predict outcomes like injury risk or
musculoskeletal disease progression. However, these measures are rarely quantified in …

Exercise-induced piezoelectric stimulation for cartilage regeneration in rabbits

Y Liu, G Dzidotor, TT Le, T Vinikoor, K Morgan… - Science Translational …, 2022 - science.org
More than 32.5 million American adults suffer from osteoarthritis, and current treatments
including pain medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs only alleviate symptoms but do not …

OpenSim: Simulating musculoskeletal dynamics and neuromuscular control to study human and animal movement

A Seth, JL Hicks, TK Uchida, A Habib… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Movement is fundamental to human and animal life, emerging through interaction of
complex neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. Study of movement draws from and …

Single leg vertical jump performance identifies knee function deficits at return to sport after ACL reconstruction in male athletes

A Kotsifaki, S Van Rossom, R Whiteley… - British journal of sports …, 2022 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives Vertical jump performance (height) is a more representative metric for knee
function than horizontal hop performance (distance) in healthy individuals. It is not known …

A comprehensive, open-source dataset of lower limb biomechanics in multiple conditions of stairs, ramps, and level-ground ambulation and transitions

J Camargo, A Ramanathan, W Flanagan… - Journal of Biomechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
We introduce a novel dataset containing 3-dimensional biomechanical and wearable sensor
data from 22 able-bodied adults for multiple locomotion modes (level-ground/treadmill …

Machine learning in human movement biomechanics: Best practices, common pitfalls, and new opportunities

E Halilaj, A Rajagopal, M Fiterau, JL Hicks… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional laboratory experiments, rehabilitation clinics, and wearable sensors offer
biomechanists a wealth of data on healthy and pathological movement. To harness the …

Full-body musculoskeletal model for muscle-driven simulation of human gait

A Rajagopal, CL Dembia, MS DeMers… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Musculoskeletal models provide a noninvasive means to study human movement
and predict the effects of interventions on gait. Our goal was to create an open-source 3-D …

Electrical spinal cord stimulation must preserve proprioception to enable locomotion in humans with spinal cord injury

E Formento, K Minassian, F Wagner, JB Mignardot… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the spinal cord restores locomotion in animal models
of spinal cord injury but is less effective in humans. Here we hypothesized that this …