B-LAB
Florent Moissenet
Publications
4 nov. 2024
The aim of this study was to append a passive soft back exoskeleton to a validated musculoskeletal model and assess its effectiveness in reducing lumbar loads. Fifteen participants lifted a box, with and without wearing a CORFOR^(®) exoskeleton. A full bo…
17 oct. 2024
The flexion relaxation phenomenon (FRP) is characterized by the reduction of paraspinal muscle activity at maximum trunk flexion. FRP is reported to be altered (persistence of spinal muscle activity) in more than half of nonspecific chronic low back pain …
23 avr. 2024
BACKGROUND: Clinical gait analysis (CGA) is a systematic approach to comprehensively evaluate gait patterns, quantify impairments, plan targeted interventions, and evaluate the impact of interventions. However, international standards for CGA are currentl…
17 févr. 2024
BACKGROUND: Aging is associated with changes in neuromuscular control that can lead to difficulties in performing daily living tasks. Muscle synergy analysis allows the assessment of neuromuscular control strategies and functional deficits. However, the a…
12 janv. 2024
Imaging techniques in anatomy have developed rapidly over the last decades through the emergence of various 3D scanning systems. Depending on the dissection level, non-contact or tactile contact methods can be applied on the targeted structure. The aim of…
23 oct. 2023
CONCLUSIONS: The ToulGaitViz could be systematically used in clinical practice to extract relevant kinematic data from the origin of shortening default and the weight of compensations.
2 oct. 2023
BACKGROUND: Using a machine learning algorithm, individuals can be accurately identified from their muscle activation patterns during gait, leading to the concept of individual muscle activation signatures.
6 juil. 2023
BACKGROUND: Primary causes of surgical revision after total hip arthroplasty are polyethylene wear and implant loosening. These factors are particularly related to joint friction and thus patients' physical activity. Assessing implant wear over time accor…
20 avr. 2023
The identification of relevant and valid biomarkers to distinguish patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) from an asymptomatic population in terms of musculoskeletal factors could contribute to patient follow-up and to evaluate therapeu…
30 mars 2023
Human motion capture and analysis could be made easier through the use of wearable devices such as inertial sensors and/or pressure insoles. However, many steps are still needed to reach the performance of optoelectronic systems to compute kinematic param…
22 déc. 2022
CONCLUSION: Both FRP ratios (FRR and ERR) for MF and ESL muscles, appear to be an objective, sensitive and specific method for identifying altered FRP in NSCLBP patients.
13 juil. 2022
Clinical gait analysis is a promising approach for quantifying gait deviations and assessing the impairments altering gait in patients with osteoarthritis. There is a lack of consensus on the identification of kinematic outcomes that could be used for the…
4 nov. 2021
BACKGROUND: Electromyography (EMG) signal amplitude is often altered by factors related to the participants and the measurement system. To overcome this issue, a normalisation of the EMG signal amplitude can be performed. Recently, it has been demonstrate…
30 sept. 2021
For interpreting outcomes of clinical gait analysis, an accurate estimation of gait events, such as initial contact (IC) and toe-off (TO), is essential. Numerous algorithms to automatically identify timing of gait events have been developed based on vario…
18 mai 2021
We performed a cadaver study using 18 fresh-frozen adult forearms and hands to compare the tendon loads required to generate progressively greater key pinch (0.5 kg to 2 kg) after three different surgical procedures to treat trapeziometacarpal osteoarthri…
13 mars 2021
The identification of relevant and valid biomarkers to distinguish patients with non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) from an asymptomatic population in terms of musculoskeletal factors could contribute to patient follow-up and to evaluate therapeu…
16 nov. 2020
Accurate estimation of the tibiofemoral contact forces relies on exact kinematics and joint geometry. Subject-specific kinematic constraints representing contact point trajectories derived from fluoroscopic measurements during lunge are introduced in a mu…
17 févr. 2020
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11 févr. 2020
Objective: The evaluation of the disease severity in hip osteoarthritis (OA) patients being currently based on subjective instruments. It would be of interest to develop more objective instruments, for example based on gait analysis. The aims of this stud…
17 sept. 2019
Musculoskeletal models generally solve the muscular redundancy by numerical optimisation. They have been extensively validated using instrumented implants. Conversely, a reduction approach considers only one flexor or extensor muscle group at the time to …
6 août 2019
In the context of neuro-orthopedic pathologies affecting walking and thus patients' quality of life, understanding the mechanisms of gait deviations and identifying the causal motor impairments is of primary importance. Beside other approaches, neuromuscu…
5 juil. 2019
Human motion capture is used in various fields to analyse, understand and reproduce the diversity of movements that are required during daily-life activities. The proposed dataset of human gait has been established on 50 adults healthy and injury-free for…
4 juil. 2019
Clinical gait analysis attempts to provide, in a pathological context, an objective record that quantifies the magnitude of deviations from normal gait. However, the identification of deviations is highly dependent with the characteristics of the normativ…
16 juin 2019
CONCLUSIONS: Obtained results on 10 healthy participants are promising. This encourages to test the system in a realistic clinical context for the rehabilitation of stroke survivors.
2 juin 2018
The pathology's impact on gait pattern may be overestimated by conventional gait indices (Gillette Gait Index - GGI, Gait Deviation Index - GDI, Gait Profile Score - GPS), since impairments' consequences on kinematics may be amplified by a change in walki…
11 mai 2017
Few studies have provided in vivo tibiofemoral kinematics of the normal knee during dynamic weight-bearing activities. Indeed, gold standard measurement methods (i.e., intracortical pins and biplane imaging) raise ethical and experimental issues. Moreover…
21 mars 2017
CONCLUSION: Defining subject-specific settings for a Lokomat^(®) training was feasible and simple to implement. These two case reports suggest a benefit of this approach for muscle strengthening. It remains to demonstrate the superiority of such an approa…
10 mars 2017
Soft tissue artefacts (STA) introduce errors in joint kinematics when using cutaneous markers, especially on the scapula. Both segmental optimisation and multibody kinematics optimisation (MKO) algorithms have been developed to improve kinematics estimate…
23 févr. 2017
CONCLUSION: Clinical improvement of gait under peroneal nerve electrical stimulation in chronic stroke patients presenting foot drop was paralleled to metabolic changes in the damaged motor cortex.
18 déc. 2016
Soft tissue artefact (STA), i.e. the motion of the skin, fat and muscles gliding on the underlying bone, may lead to a marker position error reaching up to 8.7cm for the particular case of the scapula. Multibody kinematics optimisation (MKO) is one of the…
24 août 2016
The direct effects of a rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS) on the gait of asymptomatic subjects are not clear. Previous studies only showed modifications in the gastrocnemius activity, inconsistent effects on temporal parameters, and no modification of s…
9 juin 2016
CONCLUSIONS: This classification enables patients to be grouped on the basis of key abnormalities observed whilst walking and has the advantage of being able to be used in clinical routines without necessitating complex apparatus. In the midterm, this cla…
11 mai 2016
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Abnormal knee hyperextension during the stance phase (genu recurvatum) is a common gait abnormality in persons with hemiparesis due to stroke. While ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs) are often used to prevent genu recurvatum by maintainin…
4 déc. 2015
While recent literature has clearly demonstrated that an extensive personalization of the musculoskeletal models was necessary to reach high accuracy, several components of the generic models may be further investigated before defining subject-specific pa…
19 mars 2015
Sensitivity analysis is a typical part of biomechanical models evaluation. For lower limb multi-body models, sensitivity analyses have been mainly performed on musculoskeletal parameters, more rarely on the parameters of the joint models. This study deals…
2 nov. 2014
One of the open issues in musculoskeletal modelling remains the choice of the objective function that is used to solve the muscular redundancy problem. Some authors have recently proposed to introduce joint reaction forces in the objective function, and t…
12 nov. 2013
Musculo-tendon forces and joint reaction forces are typically estimated using a two-step method, computing first the musculo-tendon forces by a static optimization procedure and then deducing the joint reaction forces from the force equilibrium. However, …
5 juil. 2012
Inverse dynamics combined with a constrained static optimization analysis has often been proposed to solve the muscular redundancy problem. Typically, the optimization problem consists in a cost function to be minimized and some equality and inequality co…
4 avr. 2012
Several three-dimensional (3D) lower-limb musculo-skeletal models have been developed for gait analysis and different hip, knee and ankle joint models have been considered in the literature. Conversely to the influence of the musculo-tendon geometry, the …