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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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Woohyoung Jeon, Ahmed Ramadan, Jill Whitall, Nesreen Alissa and Kelly Westlake
Falls in older adults are leading causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries, negatively impacting quality of life among those in this demographic. Most elderly falls occur due to unrecoverable limb collapse during balance control in the single-limb support ...
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Chae-Won Kwon, Seong-Ho Yun, Dong-Kyun Koo and Jung-Won Kwon
Purpose: Gait termination (GT) is the transition from steady-state walking to a complete stop, occurring under planned gait termination (PGT) or unplanned gait termination (UGT) conditions. This study aimed to investigate the biomechanical differences be...
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Alessandro Scano, Rebecca Re, Alessandro Tomba, Oriana Amata, Ileana Pirovano, Cristina Brambilla, Davide Contini, Lorenzo Spinelli, Caterina Amendola, Antonello Valerio Caserta, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Lorenzo Panella and Alessandro Torricelli
Measuring muscle fatigue and resistance to fatigue is a topical theme in many clinical research studies. Multi-domain approaches, including electromyography (EMG), are employed to measure fatigue in rehabilitation contexts. In particular, spectral featur...
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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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Nazia Ejaz, Saad Jawaid Khan, Fahad Azim, Mehwish Faiz, Emil Teu?an, Alin Ple?a, Alexandru Ianosi-Andreeva-Dimitrova and Sergiu-Dan Stan
Fragility fractures, caused by low-energy trauma, are a significant global health concern, with 158 million people aged 50 and over at risk. Hip fractures, a common issue in elderly patients, are often linked to underlying conditions such as osteoporosis...
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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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Tomasz Pielak, Rafal Wójcicki, Piotr Walus, Adam Jablonski, Michal Wicinski, Przemyslaw Jasiewicz, Bartlomiej Malkowski, Szymon Nowak and Jan Zabrzynski
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the association between BMI, days spent in hospital, blood loss, and surgery time in patients who suffered from isolated pelvic fractures and pelvic fractures with concomitant injuries (polytrauma...
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Zsofia Jokkel, Marcell Szily, Marton Piroska, Helga Szabó, Anita Hernyes, Gergely Szabó, Ildikó Kalina, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, David Laszlo Tarnoki and Adam Domonkos Tarnoki
Background: Recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep is a common feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Risk factors for the development of OSA include obesity, male gender and smoking. In addition, anatomical factors contribute to the developm...
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Bin Li, Feng Tong, Xiujing Gao, Junhui Yao, Yuehai Zhou and Hongwu Huang
With its superiorities of low cost, high flexibility and deployment convenience, small-size autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been extensively applied to perform a variety of undersea missions. While underwater acoustic (UWA) communication provi...
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