Abdominal wall hernias are one of the most common and long-standing surgical
applications for biomaterials engineering. Yet, despite over 50 years of standard use of …

Imaging plays an important role in the diagnosis and therapeutic response evaluation of
muscular diseases. However, one important limitation is its incapacity to assess the in vivo …

Anxiety disorders affect approximately one third of people during their lifetimes and are the
ninth leading cause of global disability. Current treatments focus on therapy and …

The role of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) in spinal load reduction has remained
controversial, partly because previous musculoskeletal models did not introduce the …

Computational models have been used extensively to study the behavior of skeletal muscle
structures, however few of these models are able to evaluate their 3D active response using …

Low back pain is one of most common musculoskeletal disorders around the world. One
major problem clinicians face is the lack of objective assessment modalities. Computed …

Using shear wave elastography, we measure the changes in the wave speed with the stress
produced by a striated muscle during isometric voluntary contraction. To isolate the …

The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using shear wave elastography
(SWE) to indirectly measure passive muscle force and to examine the effects of muscle mass …

Low back pain is often associated with tensional changes in the paraspinal muscles
detected by palpatory procedures. Shear wave elastography (SWE), recently introduced …

The presented study aims to assess the mechanical behaviour of the anterior abdominal
wall based on an in vivo experiment on humans. Full-field measurement of abdominal wall …