During my fellowship, I collaborated with Prof. Ole Morten Aamo and Ass. Prof. Øyvind Stavdahl. One of the objective of the project was the development and investigation of methods for a computer based video sequence analysis in order to detect a certain kind of General Movements (GM) observed in the motion performed by infants with the aim to determine the risk to have Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the force output of handle and pedal as well as the electromyography (EMG) of lower extremity in different cycling postures. Bilateral pedalling asymmetry indices of force and EMG were also determined in this study. Twelve healthy cyclists were recruited for this study and tested for force output and EMG during steady state cycling adopting different ped...

Key posture design is commonly needed in computer animation. This paper presents an automatic and interactive whole body posture designing technique by combining the PIK (prioritized inverse kinematics) with the proposed parametric human posture splicing technique. The key feature of PIK is that the user can design a posture by adding high level constraints with different priorities. However, t...

The dominant element in ballet is the search for flawless performance. The specific training required from early years may cause some changes compared to the normal human anatomy and physiology. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of motion analysis technologies for the evaluation of frequent changes in biomechanics of posture and dance. This paper presents an overview of the...

A 3-dimensional model and analysis methodology is suggested for treating lifting tasks when unbalanced loads are involved. The paper describes the biomechanical equations that are coupled with the worker's posture geometry, to address a practical problem of non-symmetric lifting. The analysis has a dominant biomechanical modeling scope, as it contains a breakdown of the internal lifting forces ...

Aghighi and Bäckström have previously studied cost-optimal planning (COP) and net-benefit planning (NBP) for three action cost domains: the positive integers (Z+), the nonnegative integers (Z0) and the positive rationals (Q+). These were indistinguishable under standard complexity analysis for both problems, but separated for COP using parameterised complexity analysis. With the plan cost, k, a...

purpose: to determine the effect of horizontal recti surgery on visual acuity and head posture and electronystagmographic indices in patients with congenital nystagmus. methods: this prospective comparative case series was conducted on 58 patients with congenital nystagmus who were referred to our clinic over three years. patients were divided into three groups: the first group (29 cases) had h...

original article   health, safety, and environment management are dedicated a vast area in which ergonomics aspects known as one of the related aspects. in the following case study, the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention is focused. one of the prevalent activities among industrial sectors' workers in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activit...

objectives: the aims of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of conservative treatment in patients with and without cervical ribs and thoracic outlet syndrome (tos). from so many kinds of conservative treatment in literature, we used a multidisciplinary approach (correction of posture, maximizing muscle endurance and power, stretch shorten muscles, massage for trigger points and maximize th...