A5023058110- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Effects of Vibration on Health
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Occupational Health and Performance
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Muscle activation and electromyography studies
- Railway Engineering and Dynamics
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Spatial Cognition and Navigation
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Sports Performance and Training
- Occupational health in dentistry
- Inertial Sensor and Navigation
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail
2015-2024
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation
2010-2023
Université Catholique de Lille
2020
Institut de Readaptation Gingras Lindsay de Montreal
2013
An experimental and comparative study of chronic low back pain (CLBP) patients healthy controls.To use a motivation-independent electromyography (EMG) based test muscle capacity to determine whether deconditioning is present in CLBP it related pain-related psychological variables.The verification the syndrome might be biased by performance-based measures assess physical fitness, especially having fear injury. Also, lumbar-specific such as strength endurance, more sensitive than general...
Objective To (1) assess the intra‐ and inter‐rater reliability of different ultrasound (US) measures lumbar multifidus muscle in subjects with without chronic low back pain (2) test 3 ways to enhance reliability, that is, by testing tasks, using a template, averaging trials within or between days. Design Cross‐sectional repeated‐measures design. Setting Laboratory setting. Patients Fifteen 15 control subjects. Methods Subjects (n = 30) performed contralateral arm lifting leg while prone...
Objective To assess the reliability of ultrasound (US) measures transversus abdominis (TrA) muscle in a sample subjects with and without specific chronic low back pain to test whether is enhanced by using different abdominal activation tasks, use foam cube for US transducer stabilization or averaging 3 on same image. Design Cross‐sectional repeated‐measures design. Setting Laboratory setting. Patients Fifteen 15 control subjects. Methods Subjects (n = 30) performed tasks supine position: (1)...
Research suggests that in some patients with low back pain, lumbar belts (LB) may derive secondary prophylactic benefits. It remains to be determined, however, which are most likely benefit from LB use, and design is optimal for this purpose. The objective of study was determine the effect different designs on range motion lumbopelvic rhythm. Healthy subjects (10 males; 10 females) performed five standing flexion/extension cycles, knees straight, during a control (no belt) four belt...
Inertial motion capture (IMC) has gained popularity in conducting ergonomic studies the workplace. Because of need to measure contact forces, most these situ are limited a kinematic analysis, such as posture or working technique analysis. This paper aims develop and evaluate an IMC-based approach estimate back loading during manual material handling (MMH) tasks. During various representative workplace MMH tasks performed by nine participants, this was evaluated comparing results with ones...
Handling tasks can expose workers to risk factors. The objective was describe the feasibility of using magnetic and inertial measurement units (MIMUs) quantify physical exposure materials handlers in workplace. Full-body kinematics were obtained with MIMUs on 10 gathering products ordered by retailers a pallet truck. An observer classified visual difference (VD) segment orientation between avatar video recordings three categories (none, minor major) for each product transfer. feet, arms,...
The aim of this study was to evaluate eight methods for aligning the orientation two different local coordinate systems. Alignment is very important when combining systems motion analysis. Two were developed specifically biomechanical studies, and because there have been at least three decades algorithm development in robotics, it decided include six from field. To compare these methods, an Xsens sensor Optotrak clusters attached a Plexiglas plate. first optical marker cluster fixed on 20...
The vibration-induced postural reaction paradigm (VIB-PR) offers a unique way for investigating sensorimotor control mechanisms. Measures of VIB-PR are usually calculated from the whole VIB period, yet recent evidence proposed that distinctive mechanisms likely at play between early vs. later phases reaction.The present work verified if spatiotemporal analyses center pressure (COP) displacements can detect differences these early/later VIB-PR. Also, we further characterized...