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Assessment of Exoskeleton Related Changes in Kinematics and Muscle Activity

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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, reported at shoulder and low back regions, rank among the most serious health problems in industry. Owing to their ability in providing support to the shoulder and back regions during sustained and repetitive tasks, passive exoskeletons are expected to prevent work-related disorders. In this work, experimental protocols were conducted for the extraction of relevant information regarding the neuromuscular activation and kinematics during simulated working activities with passive exoskeletons. Our results support the notion these passive exoskeletons have the potential to alleviate muscular loading and therefore to prevent musculoskeletal disorders in the industrial sector.

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This work was supported by Regione Piemonte and the Ministry of Education, University, and Research in the POR FESR 2014/2020 framework Project “Human centered Manufacturing Systems (HuManS)” and by IUVO Srl.

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  1. Postgraduate Program of Rehabilitation Sciences, Augusto Motta University (UNISUAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabio V. dos Anjos

  2. Laboratory for Engineering of the Neuromuscular System (LISiN), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

    Taian M. Vieira, Giacinto L. Cerone, Talita P. Pinto & Marco Gazzoni

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  1. Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Processes and Factories of the Future, Centro Tecnológico de Automoción de Galicia, Porriño, Spain

    Jawad Masood

  3. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Stuttgart, Germany

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dos Anjos, F.V., Vieira, T.M., Cerone, G.L., Pinto, T.P., Gazzoni, M. (2022). Assessment of Exoskeleton Related Changes in Kinematics and Muscle Activity. In: Moreno, J.C., Masood, J., Schneider, U., Maufroy, C., Pons, J.L. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. WeRob 2020. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69547-7_83

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