Long legs and small joints: The locomotor capabilities of Homo naledi.

24 January 2025: This paper was inadvertently published prematurely before all proof corrections had been finalized. It has been temporarily unpublished while this is rectified.

Patients' Acceptance of the Use of Serious Games in Physical Rehabilitation in Morocco.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether serious games especially customized for physical rehabilitation could be used in daily clinics with patients who are not familiar with informatics and/or new technologies and whether such a clinical approach would be culturally acceptable within a North African population to plan further clinical distribution if the hypothesis appears to be positive.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-one patients participated in this study. Experiments were performed in the University Hospital Mohammed VI Oujda in Morocco.

Prediction of the drilling path to surgically pin the femoral neck from the spatial location of pelvic and femoral anatomical landmarks: A cadaver validation study.

Several clinical applications rely on accurate guiding information when drilling along the femoral neck (e.g., pin insertion in case of neck fracture).

[Sports-related concussions: are we (fully) aware of the consequences?].

Contact sports and sports with high risk of head traumatism are increasingly becoming more popular. This trend leads to a 60% increase of sport-related concussions in the decade. It is therefore important to summarize the current knowledge in this field (diagnosis, risk factors.

A portable system for foot biomechanical analysis during gait.

Modeling the foot is challenging due to its complex structure compared to most other body segments. To analyze the biomechanics of the foot, portable devices have been designed to allow measurement of temporal, spatial, and pedobarographic parameters. The goal of this study was to design and evaluate a portable system for kinematic and dynamic analysis of the foot during gait.

Precision of shoulder anatomical landmark calibration by two approaches: a CAST-like protocol and a new anatomical palpator method.

The objective of the study was to compare the precision of shoulder anatomical landmark palpation using a CAST-like method and a newly developed anatomical palpator device (called A-Palp) using the forefinger pulp directly. The repeated-measures experimental design included four examiners that twice repeated measurements on eleven scapula and humerus anatomical landmarks during two sessions. Inter-session and inter-examiner precision was determined on volunteers.

Calibration and validation of 6 DOFs instrumented spatial linkage for biomechanical applications. A practical approach.

A method for both calibration and validation of a 6 DOF electrogoniometer is presented. A 6 Revolute Instrumented Spatial Linkage (6R-ISL) and a three-dimensional digitizer (3DD) were used simultaneously to collect both static and continuous poses of unconstrained or constrained motions. Validation occurred using a calibrated ball-and-socket joint.