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Advances in Sensing Body Motion for Neuromechanics and Therapeutics

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Wearables".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 1953

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Jean & Paul Amos PD & Movement Disorders Program, Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Interests: Movement Disorders, Gait, Balance, Fall Prevention, Neural Engineering, Clinical Trials, Biostatistics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue solicits original research and review articles on recent advances in the development of technologies to record and analyze motion of the human body and neurophysiological signals. In particular, motion analysis is used in a many clinical disciplines and discovery science fields but remains dominated by 3D kinematic motion capture using optical markers. Recent advances in body-worn sensor technology and open-source machine learning libraries have fundamentally changed what is possible in the field. This special issue will highlight novel technology applications in clinical and discovery science fields concerned with sensing human body motion, including biomechanics, neuromechanics, kinesiology, rehabilitation, and mobile health.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Applications of body-worn sensors for motion analysis in clinical and healthy populations
  • Applications of computer vision and/or deep learning approaches for motion analysis in clinical and healthy populations
  • Supervised and unsupervised motion analysis for “digital diagnostics”
  • Shallow and deep learning classification of gait or postural abnormalities and/or response to therapies
  • Recent applications of wearables and other remote monitoring in mobile health
  • Descriptions of novel publicly-available datasets
  • Studies addressing kinematic or kinetic hypotheses conducted using publicly-available datasets
  • Novel hardware technologies for applications such as those above
  • Novel analytical or statistical approaches for data streams generated in applications such as those above

Pilot, feasibility, or nonrandomized intervention studies will be given full consideration provided that they follow established guidelines (Thabane, L., Ma, J., Chu, R. et al. A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how. BMC Med Res Methodol 10, 1 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-10-1). Pre-submission inquiries will be happily considered by the Guest Editor.

Dr. J.Lucas McKay
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Gait
  • Posture
  • Rehabilitation
  • Pharmacotherapy
  • Inertial measurement unit
  • Biomechanics
  • Neuromechanics
  • Movement disorders

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Less Vibrotactile Feedback Is Effective to Improve Human Balance Control during Sensory Cues Alteration
by Noémie Anctil, Zachary Malenfant, Jean-Philippe Cyr, Katia Turcot and Martin Simoneau
Sensors 2022, 22(17), 6432; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22176432 - 26 Aug 2022
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Abstract
For individuals with altered sensory cues, vibrotactile feedback improves their balance control. However, should vibrotactile feedback be provided every time balance control is compromised, or only one-third of the time their balance is compromised? We hypothesized that vibrotactile feedback would improve balance control [...] Read more.
For individuals with altered sensory cues, vibrotactile feedback improves their balance control. However, should vibrotactile feedback be provided every time balance control is compromised, or only one-third of the time their balance is compromised? We hypothesized that vibrotactile feedback would improve balance control more when provided every time their balance is compromised. Healthy young adults were randomly assigned to two groups: group 33% feedback (6 males and 6 females) and group 100% feedback (6 males and 6 females). Vibrotactile feedbacks related to the body’s sway angle amplitude and direction were provided, while participants stood upright on a foam surface with their eyes closed. Then, we assessed if balance control improvement lasted when the vibrotactile feedback was removed (i.e., post-vibration condition). Finally, we verified whether or not vibrotactile feedback unrelated to the body’s sway angle and direction (sham condition) altered balance control. The results revealed no significant group difference in balance control improvement during vibrotactile feedback. Immediately following vibrotactile feedback, both groups reduced their balance control commands; body sway velocity and the ground reaction forces variability decreased. For both groups, unrelated vibrotactile feedback worsened balance control. These results confirmed that participants processed and implemented vibrotactile feedback to control their body sways. Less vibrotactile feedback was effective in improving balance control. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Sensing Body Motion for Neuromechanics and Therapeutics)
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