66148 - BIOMECHANICS OF MOTOR FUNCTION M

Learning outcomes

Students will acquire a basic preparation that allows them to design experiments, design measurements and discuss the results of analysis of human motor function, with particular attention to pathologies and orthopaedic treatments. They will acquire fundamental elements of a series of methods for measuring the overall function and specific performance of individual reconstructive implants of anatomical structures, as well as the techniques for the design of these implants. The analyses concern intra- and post-operative evaluations.

Course contents

• Introduction to the course, hints of movement physiology
• Motor control
• Methods for measuring movement
• Wearable sensors in clinical trials
• Motor function modeling
• Modelling of the suboptimal control
• Risk of fracture in massive paediatric reconstructions
• Are spontaneous hip fractures possible?
• Soft tissue balance in knee replacement
• Credibility of movement dynamics models

Readings/Bibliography

Copy of slides used by the lecturer

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures and hands-on labs

Assessment methods

Oral examination.

Before taking the exam, the student must have done all the exercises provided, and produced the relevant evidence, by sending to the teacher by e-mail or presenting them at the exam.

Teaching tools

High interaction between teacher and students through practical examples and related discussion; participation in real experimental sessions in which students can take an active role in their execution and become familiar with the related instrumentation and calculation processes.

Office hours

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