background: frozen shoulder is resulting in limb disability and reduction of quality of life but the factors associated with patients’ disability and quality of life is not clear. to assess pain, disability, the quality of life and factors associated with them in patients suffering from frozen shoulder.  methods: we enrolled 120 patients (37 men and 83 women) with phase-ii idiopathic frozen sho...

Aimed at the shortcomings of the traditional video monitoring system, human detection method in intelligent video monitoring system was researched. This paper proposed a human detection method based on motion object extraction and head–shoulder feature to complete human detection and statistics in video image sequences. Firstly, background subtraction based on adaptive threshold was used to ext...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background : strength improvement of the shoulder muscles is a major goal in rehabilitation or athletic conditioning programs. the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of shoulder core exercises on the isometric torque of glenohumeral joint movements. methods : a total of 36 healthy females with no history of sho...

This paper proposes a computational approach for generation of reference path for upper-limb exoskeletons considering the scapulohumeral rhythms of the shoulder. The proposed method can be used in upper-limb exoskeletons with 3 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) in shoulder and 1 DoF in elbow, which are capable of supporting shoulder girdle. The developed computational method is based on Central Nervous ...

methods a cross sectional survey of 156 archers (m = 91, f = 65) mean age = 20.27 ± 2.31 (range 15 - 28 years) was conducted during all india inter university archery tournament 2013. study consisted of two parts - schedule interview and clinical examination of both shoulders. t test, odds ratio and cross tabulation with chi square (χ2) test were the tool of statistical analysis. results the po...

This paper analyses the torque characteristics of the shoulder and elbow joints of a humanoid robot arm that is useful for an object lifting and transferring task instead of human beings. For the purpose, some typical human lifting behaviors are considered, and various simulations for lifting and transferring an object have been performed by employing a humanoid robot arm having a simple config...

Conventional moving objects detection and tracking using visible light image was often affected by the change of moving objects, change of illumination conditions, interference of complex backgrounds, shaking of camera, shadow of moving objects and moving objects of selfocclusion or mutual-occlusion phenomenon. We propose a human detection method using HOG features of head and shoulder based on...

The flexibility and structural compliance of the biological shoulder joint allows humans to perform a wide range of motions with their arms. The current paper is a preliminary study in which we propose a structurally compliant robotic manipulator joint inspired by the human shoulder joint, which elastically deforms when actuated. The tensile actuation is similar to the contraction and extension...

Design of mechanical compliance would be one of the most important technical foci in making humanoid robots really interactive with the humans. For safety insurance the mechanical compliance should be developed to humanoid robots. The introduction of the passive compliance to humanoid robots has large possibility to achieve the human skill by using the dynamical energy stored in the compliant m...