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Laboratory for Functional Anatomy (LAF)

Faculty of Motor Skills Sciences | Research Centers

(Code: ULB390)

► Analysis of global wrist kinematics using spatial electrogoniometry. Normal kinematics, analysis of circumduction envelope and clinical applications

Financement de base institutionnel.

Using homemade spatial linkages, a normal database of wrist kinematics for planar motion and for the complex movement of circumduction was established. ...

► Evaluation of shoulder kinematics. Electrogoniometric, magnetic tracking study and 3D analysis of videoscopic images

Financement de base institutionnel.

The development of a spatial linkage suitable for the study of shoulder kinematics led to a comparative study of the results obtained by several differ ...

► Functional evaluation of the cervical spine using electrogoniometry

Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

Using a commercial electrogoniometer, cervical spine motion was analysed. Results from a reference population of more than 100 asymptomatic volunteers  ...

► Functional evaluation of the lumbar spine using electrogoniometry

Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

Using a commercial electrogoniometer, lumbar spine motion was analysed. Results from a reference population of more than 80 asymptomatic volunteers are ...

► Improvement of the patellar compartment in total knee replacement

Autres ressources extérieures - Financement de base institutionnel.

To improve design and placement techniques for the patellar implant in total knee prostheses, knee kinematics (magnetic tracking and electrogoniometry) ...

► Justifying the concept of a variable functional anatomy of the wrist. Relation between osseous and ligamentous morphology and function

Financement de base institutionnel.

Based on recent results demonstrating individually variable carpal morphology and biomechanics, a variable functional model of the carpus is advanced.  ...

► Anthropo-morphology of the hand. Volume measurements and theoretical and practical implications. Study on 250 male hand moldings and on living subjects

Financement de base institutionnel.

This project aims at constructing a volumic measurement system for the hand and at establishing correlations between various anthropometric parameters  ...

► Development and applications of an electrogoniometric system for continuous and real-time tracking and analysis of three-dimensional joint kinematics

Financement de base institutionnel.

This project aims at developping and constructing instrumentation, software and methodology needed for the application of spatial electrogoniometry to  ...

► Development and applications of a technique for continuous and real-time tracking and analysis of muscle lever arm evolution

Financement de base institutionnel.

The measuring technique is based on muscle length change sampling as a function of joint motion. By derivation, muscle lever arm and its evolution as a ...

► Kinematics of spinal manual therapy techniques and their effects n spinal kinematics

Financement de base institutionnel.

Three-dimensional electrogoniometric, electromagnetic tracking and optoelectronic study of the kinematics of spinal manipulation techniques in anatomic ...