Sitting Biomechanics Laboratory Part of the Sensory Motor Performance Program Room 1340, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

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External Links:

Introduction at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Site

PI page at Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

PI page at Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences, Northwestern University

Clinical Related Research

• Promoting Pressure Ulcers Healing in Wheelchair Users
  
  
• Sitting and Trunk Balance in Hemiparetic Stroke
  
  
• Tissue Evaluation using an Ultrasound Probe
  
  
• Lung capacity of wheelchair users
  
  

Development

• Design of a New Seating Concept (iPUPc) for Wheelchair
  
  
• Design of a New Back Support for Wheelchair
  
  
  
  

Basic Sciences

• SCI Animal Model for PU in Denervated Tissues
  
  
• Mechanical Property of Soft Tissue
  
  
• A 3D FE Model for Evaluating Buttock Tissue Response under Sitting Load
  
  
• Finite Element Model Validation
  
  
• FEM Evaluation of Regular Sitting
  
  
• FEM Evaluation of an Off-Loading Sitting
  
  

Occupational Safety and Health

Occupational Health research in focuses on sitting related problems, mainly low back disorders. This part of research has been supported by NIOSH and our industrial partners. Projects in two major areas, office sitting and vehicle sitting, have been carried out.

• Occupational Lower Back Pain
  
  
• Whole Body Vibration

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Last updated June 19, 2008 by Makhsous.
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