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"La bipédie impose à la colonne vertébrale des contraintes mécaniques de surcharge. Grâce à des calculs de vecteurs de force, l'auteur établit une preuve mathématique de cette surcharge qui agresse les articulations de la colonne au cours de la vie normale lors des diverses activités de la vie quotidienne. En général, les études scientifiques analysant les causes des douleurs vertébrales portent sur la surexploitation des capacités portantes de la colonne en diverses circonstances professionnelles, sportives ou autres. Mais le mal de dos n'est pas réservé aux travailleurs de force ou aux sportifs. La plupart des gens ont mal au dos souvent ou au moins occasionnellement. Alors comment expliquer sa généralisation dans la population? Voilà l'originalité de ce travail qui fait la démonstration théorique de la responsabilité des simples gestes de la vie quotidienne dans la genèse des troubles mécaniques du rachis. Les diverses postures adoptées dans la vie de tous les jours par les êtres humains provoquent des microtraumatismes articulaires répétitifs responsables d'une accélération de l'évolution dégénérative du rachis et de l'apparition périodique de manifestations douloureuses très variables d'une personne à l'autre. Il faut ajouter l'existence de complications occasionnelles d'origine discale ou spondylarthrosiques, souvent sténotiques spinales ou foraminales, associées, du moins en partie, aux conséquences lointaines du même mécanisme. Dans ces circonstances, nous présumons qu'une prévention de ces microtraumatismes articulaires répétitifs serait en mesure de ralentir l'évolution dégénérative rachidienne, de réduire les manifestations douloureuses épisodiques et d'empêcher ou retarder à un âge plus avancé les complications. Ainsi, comprenant le mécanisme de l'agression gravitaire de sa colonne, le lecteur saura pourquoi et comment mettre en pratique diverses suggestions de prévention posturale accompagnée d'un programme d'exercices rationnel et conforme aux prémisses biomécaniques. On trouvera à la fin du chapitre 2 la description d'une étude expérimentale réalisée par l'auteur confirmant par une preuve électromyographique l'effet compressif sur le rachis produit par les muscles spinaux proportionnellement à l'importance du déplacement du centre de gravité. La dernière partie de cette monographie s'intéresse à la panoplie de modalités thérapeutiques dont le principal objectif est de soulager la douleur. Devenues de plus en plus sophistiquées et, jusqu'à un certain point, efficaces à court terme, ces diverses approches techniques ont le défaut d'évacuer le mécanisme responsable des diverses conditions qu'elles entendent soulager. Dans ce chapitre, nous faisons donc une description sommaire de ces divers traitements dont les injections de cortisone sachant toutefois que, sans prévention du mécanisme provocateur, les améliorations escomptées risquent d'être de courte durée. Cette publication constitue une présentation originale de ce problème et propose une nouvelle stratégie pour le combattre tout en présentant une critique motivée de l'approche thérapeutique traditionnelle, peut-être efficace à court terme, mais qui ne change pas la morbidité liée à ce fléau généralisé chez les êtres humains."--

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The aging population and the increased prevalence of neurological diseases have raised the issue of gait and balance disorders as a major public concern worldwide. Indeed, gait and balance disorders are responsible for a high healthcare and economic burden on society, thus, requiring new solutions to prevent harmful consequences. Recently, wearable sensors have provided new challenges and opportunities to address this issue through innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Accordingly, the book “Wearable Sensors in the Evaluation of Gait and Balance in Neurological Disorders” collects the most up-to-date information about the objective evaluation of gait and balance disorders, by means of wearable biosensors, in patients with various types of neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and cerebellar ataxia. By adopting wearable technologies, the sixteen original research articles and reviews included in this book offer an updated overview of the most recent approaches for the objective evaluation of gait and balance disorders.

History of engineering & technology --- inertial measurement units --- gait analysis --- biomedical signal processing --- pattern recognition --- step detection --- physiological signals --- Parkinson’s disease --- pathological gait --- turning analysis --- wearable sensors --- mobile gait analysis --- wearables --- inertial sensors --- traumatic brain injury --- dynamic balance --- gait disorders --- gait patterns --- head injury --- gait symmetry --- gait smoothness --- acceleration --- machine learning --- classification --- accelerometer --- GAITRite --- multi-regression normalization --- SVM --- random forest classifier --- balance --- gait --- transcranial direct current stimulation --- wearable electronics --- IMUs --- cueing --- posture --- rehabilitation --- cerebellar ataxia --- movement analysis --- personalized medicine --- stroke --- asymmetry --- trunk --- reliability --- validity --- aging --- reactive postural responses --- yaw perturbation --- kinematics --- postural stability --- dynamic posturography --- multiple sclerosis --- gait metrics --- test-retest reliability --- sampling frequency --- accelerometry --- autocorrelation --- harmonic ratio --- six-minute walk --- back school --- inertial sensor --- lower back pain --- stability --- timed up and go test --- gait assessment --- tri-axial accelerometer --- CV --- healthy subjects --- test-retest --- trajectory reconstruction --- stride segmentation --- dynamic time warping --- pedestrian dead-reckoning --- near falls --- loss of balance --- pre-impact fall detection --- activities of daily life --- bio-signals --- EEG --- EMG --- wireless sensors --- posturography --- Alzheimer’s disease --- vestibular syndrome --- diagnosis --- symptoms monitoring --- wearable --- home-monitoring --- inertial measurement units --- gait analysis --- biomedical signal processing --- pattern recognition --- step detection --- physiological signals --- Parkinson’s disease --- pathological gait --- turning analysis --- wearable sensors --- mobile gait analysis --- wearables --- inertial sensors --- traumatic brain injury --- dynamic balance --- gait disorders --- gait patterns --- head injury --- gait symmetry --- gait smoothness --- acceleration --- machine learning --- classification --- accelerometer --- GAITRite --- multi-regression normalization --- SVM --- random forest classifier --- balance --- gait --- transcranial direct current stimulation --- wearable electronics --- IMUs --- cueing --- posture --- rehabilitation --- cerebellar ataxia --- movement analysis --- personalized medicine --- stroke --- asymmetry --- trunk --- reliability --- validity --- aging --- reactive postural responses --- yaw perturbation --- kinematics --- postural stability --- dynamic posturography --- multiple sclerosis --- gait metrics --- test-retest reliability --- sampling frequency --- accelerometry --- autocorrelation --- harmonic ratio --- six-minute walk --- back school --- inertial sensor --- lower back pain --- stability --- timed up and go test --- gait assessment --- tri-axial accelerometer --- CV --- healthy subjects --- test-retest --- trajectory reconstruction --- stride segmentation --- dynamic time warping --- pedestrian dead-reckoning --- near falls --- loss of balance --- pre-impact fall detection --- activities of daily life --- bio-signals --- EEG --- EMG --- wireless sensors --- posturography --- Alzheimer’s disease --- vestibular syndrome --- diagnosis --- symptoms monitoring --- wearable --- home-monitoring

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The aging population and the increased prevalence of neurological diseases have raised the issue of gait and balance disorders as a major public concern worldwide. Indeed, gait and balance disorders are responsible for a high healthcare and economic burden on society, thus, requiring new solutions to prevent harmful consequences. Recently, wearable sensors have provided new challenges and opportunities to address this issue through innovative diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Accordingly, the book “Wearable Sensors in the Evaluation of Gait and Balance in Neurological Disorders” collects the most up-to-date information about the objective evaluation of gait and balance disorders, by means of wearable biosensors, in patients with various types of neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and cerebellar ataxia. By adopting wearable technologies, the sixteen original research articles and reviews included in this book offer an updated overview of the most recent approaches for the objective evaluation of gait and balance disorders.

inertial measurement units --- gait analysis --- biomedical signal processing --- pattern recognition --- step detection --- physiological signals --- Parkinson’s disease --- pathological gait --- turning analysis --- wearable sensors --- mobile gait analysis --- wearables --- inertial sensors --- traumatic brain injury --- dynamic balance --- gait disorders --- gait patterns --- head injury --- gait symmetry --- gait smoothness --- acceleration --- machine learning --- classification --- accelerometer --- GAITRite --- multi-regression normalization --- SVM --- random forest classifier --- balance --- gait --- transcranial direct current stimulation --- wearable electronics --- IMUs --- cueing --- posture --- rehabilitation --- cerebellar ataxia --- movement analysis --- personalized medicine --- stroke --- asymmetry --- trunk --- reliability --- validity --- aging --- reactive postural responses --- yaw perturbation --- kinematics --- postural stability --- dynamic posturography --- multiple sclerosis --- gait metrics --- test-retest reliability --- sampling frequency --- accelerometry --- autocorrelation --- harmonic ratio --- six-minute walk --- back school --- inertial sensor --- lower back pain --- stability --- timed up and go test --- gait assessment --- tri-axial accelerometer --- CV --- healthy subjects --- test-retest --- trajectory reconstruction --- stride segmentation --- dynamic time warping --- pedestrian dead-reckoning --- near falls --- loss of balance --- pre-impact fall detection --- activities of daily life --- bio-signals --- EEG --- EMG --- wireless sensors --- posturography --- Alzheimer’s disease --- vestibular syndrome --- diagnosis --- symptoms monitoring --- wearable --- home-monitoring