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Acoustical Features as Knee Health Biomarkers: A Critical Analysis

David Atienza Alonso, Vincent Stadelmann, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Jérôme Paul Rémy Thevenot, Christodoulos Kechris

Acoustical knee health assessment has long promised an alternative to clinically available medical imaging tools, but this modality has yet to be adopted in medical practice. The field is currently led by machine learning models processing acoustical featu ...

2024

A Tunable Self-Offloading Module for Plantar Pressure Regulation in Diabetic Patients

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Paolo Germano, Christian Köchli, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Kenny Jeanmonod, Bhawnath Tiwari

Plantar pressure plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of foot ulcers among patients with diabetes and peripheral polyneuropathy. Pressure relief is a key requirement for both the prevention and treatment of plantar ulcers. Conventional medical practice ...

2024

Steps parameters of elderly patients hospitalised for an acute medical illness in a Swiss University Hospital: an observational pilot study

Anisoara Ionescu, Francesco Tommasini

BACKGROUND: Objective mobility goals for elderly hospitalised medical patients remain debated. We therefore studied steps parameters of elderly patients hospitalised for an acute illness, to determine goals for future interventional trials and medical prac ...

SMW supporting association2022

Personalizable computational models of electrical spinal cord stimulation to restore function after neurological disorders

Andreas Rowald

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) disrupts the communication between the brain and spinal circuits below the lesion, leading to a plethora of neurological impairments, including the loss of motor function. At present, the only medical practices to enhance recovery ...

EPFL2021

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Induction of anesthesia with propofol is a largely adopted technique in hospital environments. The correct dosage of this compound is essential to avoid under- or over-anesthesia that may result in serious side-effects. Therefore, in clinical settings, lon ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds

Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Prostate cancer is a life-threatening malignant disease, one the most common cancer types in men and leading cause of death among men because of cancer. Considering the state of the art for the diagnosis of prostate cancer a man overall has to suffer uncom ...

EPFL2017

TUCUXI: TUCUXI: An Intelligent System for Personalized Medicine from Individualization of Treatments to Research Databases and Back

Karl Aberer, Yann Thoma, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Thierry Buclin, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concentration exposure related to between-patient variability ...

2017

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Spinal cord injury leads to a range of disabilities, including limitations in locomotor activity, that seriously diminish the patients’ autonomy and quality of life. Electrochemical neuromodulation therapies, robot-assisted rehabilitation and willpower-bas ...

2015

The first practical, portable “dynamometer”, designed in 1798 by Regnier, was used to quantify the muscular strength of men and animals. It was promptly used by ethnologists to test the strength of the “savages”. A smaller improved model (Collin dynamomete ...

2014

Early Dynamometers (from Muscle to Steam Power)

Jean-François Loude

Spring balances, based on Hooke’s law, have been used for weighing since the early 18th century. At the end of the century, naturalists such as Buffon felt the need to quantify the muscular force of men (humans) and animals. The first practical, portable “ ...

2014

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