Publications by authors named "F Busoni"
Gluteus medius tendinopathy is amongst the most prevalent lower limb tendinopathies and is now recognized as the primary cause of insidious lateral hip pain. Typically affecting middle-aged women, this condition causes disability and reduced quality of life as it negatively impacts most daily life activities. Several studies demonstrate that extracorporeal shockwave therapy is effective in reducing pain and promoting functional recovery in several musculoskeletal disorders including tendinopathies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Achilles tendon is one of the thickest, largest, and strongest tendons in the human body. Biomechanically, the AT represents the conjoint tendon of the triceps surae muscle, placed in series with the plantar fascia (PF) to ensure force transmission from the triceps surae toward the toes during walking, running, and jumping. Commonly encountered in the diagnostic evaluation of heel pain, Achilles tendinopathy (AT) refers to a combination of pathological changes affecting the tendon itself often resulting from excessive repetitive stress and overuse.
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- Ledderhose disease (LD) is a rare condition affecting the foot, characterized by painful nodules in the plantar aponeurosis, with limited success seen in conservative treatment options.
- Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has gained attention as a promising, non-invasive treatment for various musculoskeletal issues, though its application for LD has not been well-researched.
- A case study of a 48-year-old male showed that a specific ESWT protocol effectively relieved pain and improved his foot function and quality of life after three treatment sessions.
Purpose: Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the role of deep fascia mobility in musculoskeletal dynamics and chronic pain mechanisms; however, no strategies have been presented so far to study in vivo fascial motion in 3D. This paper presents a semiautomatic method, based on ultrasound (US) imaging, enabling a 3D evaluation of fascia mobility.
Methods: The proposed approach relies on the acquisition of 3D US datasets at rest and during a voluntary muscular contraction and consists of two phases: 3D US dataset analysis and generation of a displacement vector field using a block matching technique (Phase 1) and validation and filtering of the resulting displacement vector field for outliers removal (Phase 2).