1. Towards low back support with a passive biomimetic exo-spine
- Author
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Matthias B. Näf, Bram Vanderborght, Matthew Millard, Carlos Rodriguez Guerrero, Laura De Rijcke, Dirk Lefeber, Ajoudani, Arash, Artemiadis, Panagiotis, Beckerle, Philipp, Grioli, Giorgio, Lambercy, Olivier, Mombaur, Katja, Novak, Domen, Rauter, Georg, Rodriguez Guerrero, Carlos, Salvietti, Gionata, Amirabdollahian, Farshid, Balasubramanian, Sivakumar, Castellini, Claudio, Di Pino, Giovanni, Guo, Zhao, Hughes, Charmayne, Iida, Fumiya, Lenzi, Tommaso, Ruffaldi, Emanuele, Sergi, Fabrizio, Soh, Gim Song, Caimmi, Marco, Cappello, Leonardo, Carloni, Raffaella, Carlson, Tom, Casadio, Maura, Coscia, Martina, De Santis, Dalia, Forner-Cordero, Arturo, Howard, Matthew, Piovesan, Davide, Siqueira, Adriano, Sup, Frank, Lorenzo, Masia, Catalano, Manuel Giuseppe, Lee, Hyunglae, Menon, Carlo, Raspopovic, Stanisa, Rastgaar, Mo, Ronsse, Renaud, van Asseldonk, Edwin, Vanderborght, Bram, Venkadesan, Madhusudhan, Bianchi, Matteo, Braun, David, Godfrey, Sasha Blue, Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio, McDaid, Andrew, Rossi, Stefano, Zenzeri, Jacopo, Formica, Domenico, Karavas, Nikolaos, Marchal-Crespo, Laura, Reed, Kyle B., Tagliamonte, Nevio Luigi, Burdet, Etienne, Basteris, Angelo, Campolo, Domenico, Deshpande, Ashish, Dubey, Venketesh, Hussain, Asif, Sanguineti, Vittorio, Unal, Ramazan, Caurin, Glauco Augusto de Paula, Koike, Yasuharu, Mazzoleni, Stefano, Park, Hyung-Soon, Remy, C. David, Saint-Bauzel, Ludovic, Tsagarakis, Nikos, Veneman, Jan, Zhang, Wenlong, Faculty of Engineering, Applied Mechanics, and Robotics & Multibody Mechanics Research Group
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Engineering ,Orthotic Devices ,0206 medical engineering ,02 engineering and technology ,Large range ,Kinematics ,rehabilitation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Exoskeleton Device ,Back support ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,Low back ,Simulation ,Medicine(all) ,business.industry ,Equipment Design ,020601 biomedical engineering ,Orthotic device ,Spine ,Exoskeleton ,Biomechanical Phenomena ,Control and Systems Engineering ,business ,Range of motion ,Low Back Pain ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Low-Back Pain (LBP) affects a large portion of the working population. Preventive exoskeletons have been proposed to reduce the moments on the lower back, specifically around the lumbosacral (L5/S1) joint. High correlation has been shown, between reducing the moments around the L5/S1 joint and intervertebral compression forces, which in turn have been identified as a risk factor for developing LBP. However, most passive back support exoskeletons use rigid plates or stiff beams to support the spine that limit the range of motion of the wearer. A large range of motion and versatility are especially desirable for industrial applications. To overcome these limitations, a passive biomimetic exo-spine has been designed, modelled and an initial prototype tested. Its potential to allow for a large range of motion, whilst at the same time limiting the most extreme and potentially harmful postures has been shown.
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- 2017