The importance of outcome evaluation of a medical treatment in orthopedics is currently recognized. In shoulder disease, a large variety of evaluation tools is employed to assess the results of the surgery. However, even if the majority of these evaluation ...

EPFL2007

Quantifying dominant upper-limb mobility in healthy and painful shoulders

Kamiar Aminian, Brian Coley

2007

Outcome evaluation in shoulder surgery using 3D kinematics sensors

Kamiar Aminian, Brian Coley, Alain Farron

A new method of scoring systems for the functional assessment of the shoulder is presented. 3D accelerometers and gyroscopes attached on the humerus were used to differentiate a healthy from a painful shoulder. The method was first tested on 10 healthy vol ...

2007

Stair climbing detection during daily physical activity using a miniature gyroscope

Kamiar Aminian, Brian Coley, Bijan Najafi, Anisoara Ionescu

A new method of monitoring physical activity that is able to detect walking upstairs using a miniature gyroscope attached to the shank is presented. Wavelet transformation, in conjunction with a simple kinematics model, was used to detect toe-off, heel-str ...

2005

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