Browsing Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Graduate Theses by Author "Deluzio, Kevin J."
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Brace Yourself: Reducing Medial Knee Loading for Treatment of Osteoarthritis
Brandon, Scott (2015-01-23)Compared with healthy controls, subjects with medial knee osteoarthritis walk using similar kinematics but greater activation of knee-spanning muscles, especially on the lateral side of the knee (furthest from centerline ... -
Design and Evaluation of the Kingston Brace
Jones, Simon (2010-02-18)Lisfranc injuries affect at least 1 out of every 55,000 people each year. Although they are rare foot injuries, their effects can be devastating. 20-40% of Lisfranc injuries are missed upon first presentation. This ... -
The Effects of Alternative Joint Models in the Study of Lower-Limb Joint Moments in Knee Osteoarthritis
Brandon, Scott (2009-08-12)Knee osteoarthritis is a disease that affects nearly 40% of the global population over the age of seventy. It is believed that the incidence and progression of osteoarthritis can be partially attributed to changes in ... -
Factors Affecting the Stability of Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
Clouthier, Allison (2012-01-04)Reverse shoulder arthroplasty is a relatively new procedure that is used to treat shoulders with massive rotator cuff tears combined with arthritis, a condition that is not well managed using conventional shoulder arthroplasty. ... -
High flexion kinematics and kinetics for the improvement of artificial knee joints
Acker, Stacey (2010-10-25)Total knee arthroplasty has been effective in reducing pain, but less so in restoring function, especially for activities requiring deep knee flexion. The philosophy of this dissertation was that more functionally effective ... -
Improved Accuracy in Optical Motion Capture Measurements Leads to Increased Sensitivity to Kinematic Changes
Hutchinson, Laura (2016-08-18)Clinical optical motion capture allows us to obtain kinematic and kinetic outcome measures that aid clinicians in diagnosing and treating different pathologies affecting healthy gait. The long term aim for gait centres is ... -
IMU-Based Lower-limb joint angles: A comparison of methods
Conte, Jonathan (2015-12-21)Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are a popular option for human movement analysis. The untethered, self-contained nature of IMUs overcomes many limitations of conventional measurement systems. The potential of IMU systems ... -
Multivariate Techniques in Biomechanical Analysis
Hassan, Elizabeth (2016-08-04)This work outlines the theoretical advantages of multivariate methods in biomechanical data, validates the proposed methods and outlines new clinical findings relating to knee osteoarthritis that were made possible by this ... -
A novel method to analyze the mechanics of unloader braces for medial knee osteoarthritis
Brown, Marcus (2015-01-08)Bracing is a treatment option for medial knee osteoarthritis that reduces compressive forces in the medial knee through the application of an external brace moment. In theory, this moment reduces the external knee adduction ... -
Range of Motion and Impingement in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty
North, Lydia (2014-04-03)Reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA) is a joint replacement procedure used mainly to treat patients with severe shoulder osteoarthritis combined with massive rotator cuff tears. It involves reversing the `ball and socket' ... -
Trunk Lean in Control and Osteoarthritic Gait
Linley, Heather (2009-08-17)Trunk lean over the stance limb during gait has been linked to a reduction in the knee adduction moment, which is associated with joint loading. Differences were examined in knee adduction moments and frontal plane trunk ...