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Interuniversity Centre of Bioengineering
of the Human Neuromusculoskeletal System

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University of Rome "Foro Italico"
Piazza Lauro de Bosis, 6
00135 Roma - Italy

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e-mail: info AT iuc-bohnes.eu
Preserving and enhancing human motor functioning is a modern society’s strategic aim: governments are concerned with the improvement of human health & wellbeing and with the achievement of personalised healthcare, prevention and early diagnosis, healthy aging, sustainability of chronic diseases. In the last decades, science and technology have played a remarkable role in pursuing this goal; however, the knowledge of human motor functioning and of the effects of related medical interventions is still inadequate.
 
Efforts must be made to strengthen our multi-scale understanding of the human locomotor system’s structure and functioning and to develop scientific methodologies, which can be easily implemented into professional practice. It is thus necessary to integrate the cultural heritage of old and on-going research programs with the development of an innovative scientific approach.
 
In order to solve the above-described problems, this trans-domain inter-university Centre was founded, which, focusing on human movement sciences, could connect researchers to professional associations (medical, ergonomic and sport companies), service providers, policy makers, and industry.

News

25/05/2023Eight Bohnes Colloquium

May, 25th-27th 2023 Venues: Asinara National Park Headquarter – Via Ponte Romano 81, Porto Torres (SS)Palazzo Reale – Cala Reale, Island of Asinara DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM The BoHNES InterUniversity Centre, in collaboration with the “Parco Nazionale dell’Asinara” and the “Fondazione di Sardegna,” presents the 2023 IUC-BoHNES Colloquium. The theme selected for the Colloquium is: Reduced Mobility Should Not Reduce Our Enjoyment of Nature We all belong to nature, and we should all benefit from it Historically, people dealing with reduced mobility due to disease or impairment affecting locomotion have been faced with limited access to nature. Modern societies address the issue by designing dedicated experiences and removing physical and societal obstacles from itineraries in natural environments. The National Park of Asinara is also very sensitive to this issue and is launching initiatives to allow people with reduced mobility to visit and take advantage of the natural beauty of the Island of Asinara. Science can contribute significantly to closing the gap between how non-disabled people and people with reduced mobility enjoy nature. The BoHNES Colloquium gathers young scientists with mobility expertise from an engineering and physical exercise standpoint. In this two-day event, they will have an opportunity to share problems and results of their scientific activity in a very inspiring natural context.

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18/05/2022Seventh Bohnes Colloquium

Valencia 31st May – 1st June 2022Venue: Instituto de Biomecánica de Valencia (Camí de Vera, s/n, 46022 València, Valencia, Spagna) DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAM The Centre’s research activities are meant to improve the knowledge of human locomotor system’s structure and functioning, and to implement effective digital tools and technologies, to be used in arts, skills, and professions. Program Monday, 30 th May Arrivals Tuesday, 31st May 9:00 – 9:20 Welcome to participants Helios De Rosario (IBV) Juan José Ródenas (I2MB)9:20 – 11:00 Research with new technologies of shape and motion capture and machine learning. Helios De Rosario & Sandra Alemany Presentation of 4D scanning technology Move 4D in biomechanical analysis + Visit to “Human Analysis Lab” (HAL) (split in two groups) 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break11:30 – 13:00 Presentations from centres: ULB Roma 3 Lyon13:30 – 14:30 Lunch14:30 – 17:00 UNISS Foro Italico Padova Marseille I2MB17:00 – 18:30 “4D Challenge” Ideas of collaborative research.Executive Committee meetingSocial Dinner at 21:00 in Valencia city centre Wednesday, 1st June 9:00 – 12:00 Student’s brainstorming session (with coffee break around 11:00)12:00 – 13:00 BoHNeS General Assembly Departures

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19/02/2021Sixth Bohnes Colloquium

Sixth BoHNeS Colloquium Anywhere, February 19th 2021 Venue: Microsoft Teams Program 14:00 Opening (U. Della Croce)14:15 Research in the time of CoVID19 (A. Bustos)14:30 From research to market in neural engineering: the case of Newronika (S. Marceglia – L. Rossi)15:00 Università degli studi di Sassari (S. Bertuletti)15:15 Aix-Mairseille-Université (B. Goislard de Monsabert)15:30 Università degli studi di Padova (M. Romanato)15:45 Université Claude Bernard (S. Guitteny)16:00 Coffee Break16:15 Università politecnica delle Marche (A. Tigrini)16:30 Université Libre De Bruxelles (S. Van Sint Jan)16:45 Università degli studi di Roma “Roma 3” (S. Ranaldi)17:00 Università degli studi di Roma “Foro Italico” (P. Brasiliano)17:15 General Assembly

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18/02/2020Fifth Bohnes Colloquium

Fifth BoHNeS Colloquium Brussels, 29th – 31st January 2020 Venue: Sport Center of the Forêt de Soignes (Chaussée de Wavre, 2057 – 1160 Brussels – Belgium) bdr Brussels, January 29th – January 31st 2020 Venue: The colloquium will take place at the Sport Center of the Forêt de Soignes (full address: Chaussée de Wavre, 2057 – 1160 Brussels – Belgium). Program Wednesday, 29th of January Arrivals 15.00 Check-in 18.30 Dinner Thursday, 30th of January 09.00 Welcome address (Serge Van Sint Jan) and President word (Ugo Della Croce)09.15 Presentation of the Department of Anatomy and Biomechanics and Center for Functional Evaluation – Université Libre de Bruxelles (host institution) (Serge Van Sint Jan) Free communications: PhD Student – 1 10.00 “New instrumental approaches for biomechanical risk assessment in work activities” -Tiwana Varrecchia (Uniroma3)                                                            10.20 “Using musculoskeletal modelling to clarify the effect of wrist posture on muscle force-generating capacities and maximal grip force during a power grip task” – Mathieu Caumes (UAM)10.40 Break Free communication: PhD Student – 2 11.00 “A wearable gait analysis protocol to support the choice of the appropriate ankle-foot orthosis: A comparative assessment in children with Cerebral Palsy” – Martina Alvini (ITOP)11.20 “Ankle joint kinematics evaluation through MIMU-based calibration procedures” – Guido Mascia (UNIROMA4)11.40 “Modelling Knee biomechanics during squat for Planning Return on field in ACL post surgery athletes” – Davide Pavan (UNIPD)12.00 “Impact of Cerebral Palsy on muscle coordination during pedaling with lower or upper limbs” – Théo Cartier (UAM)12.20 Lunch Senior Keynote speaker 13.30 “The use of gait analysis and modelling to build evolutionary hypotheses” – Tara Chapman (Royal Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)14.15 Break Free communication : PhD Student – 3 14.30 “An EMG-informed modelling approach for the prediction of internal variables during locomotion in Parkinson’s disease patients” – Marco Romanato (UNIPD)14.50 “Dual mobility cup: mobility and stability” – Louis Riglet (LYON1)15.00 “Neuromechanical analysis of gait termination in low-back pain and asymptomatic subjects” – Paolo Brasiliano (UNIROMA4)15.20 “Movement prediction for accessibility analysis” – Vincent Gibeaux (LYON1)15.40 “Assessment of cervical stiffness in axial rotation among patients with chronic neck pain : A trial in the framework of a non-manipulative osteopathic management” – Alicia Coucke (ULB) Extra’s 15.50 “Human movement analysis using high-resolution 3-D shapes” – Helios de Rosario (IBV)16.10 Executive committee meeting18.00 End of Day 119.00 Dinner Friday, 31st of January 8.30 Workshop: development of a multicentric research using common hardware Multicentric research is of high scientific interest because by nature the applied methodology should be reproducible which is required for quality research. A system that shows such reproducibility would be of high value. Based on the partners’ own experience, a common protocol was defined in order to create multicentric research based on low-cost equipment that would be available at each partner premises. Next to this international and multicentric validation work, the aim is to produce one publication in an international journal. Victor Sholukha (ULB) and Serge Van Sint Jan (ULB) will present a data collection system based on the Kinect sensor and customized software (including data smoothing and optimization) to produce scientifically meaningful results from this easily available hardware. This system could be a first option to organize a multicentric reproducibility study that would aim to determine if such system would show a good inter-center reproducibility during analyzing of specified tasks. 10.00 Break10.15 General Assembly Junior Keynote speaker 11.15 “Portable cardiac monitoring using ballistocardiography: from space research to clinical applications” – Jeremy Rabineau (ULB).12.30 Lunch Free communication 13.30 “The effect of ankle and hindfoot malalignment on foot mechanics in patients suffering from post-traumatic ankle osteoarthritis” – Paul-André Deleu (LYON1)13.50 “Analysis of spatial parameters during gait with magneto-inertial and infrared proximity sensors” – Rachele Rossanigo (UNISS)14.10 “Anatomical variations of the temporo-mandibular joints (TMJ) and implication in TMJ motion representation” – Gael Bescond (ULB) 14.20 “The influence of neck and thoracic spine curvatures on musculoskeletal disorder related upper limb biomechanics parameters” – Aurelie Tomezzoli (LYON1)14.30 “Two dimensional markerless gait analysis protocol for estimating the sagittal lower limb joint kinematics with a single RGB-D camera for clinical applications” – Diletta Balta (UNISS)14.50 “Gait monitoring using non-dedicated sensors” – Nahime Al Abiad (LYON1)15.00 Break and Closing words by the President Bohnes 2020 BrusselsDownload

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07/09/2019Meeting at ISB 2019

Meeting at isb 2019 A nice group of BoHNES members from Universities of Foro Italico, Lyon, Padova, Sassari, and ULB were disseminating the Centre research (and meeting at the social dinner!) at the International Society of Biomechanics Conference in Calgary this summer. We look forward to meeting again at our annual Colloquium to be held in February in Bruxelles!

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20/03/2019Fourth BoHNeS Colloquium

Rome, January 30th – February 1st 2019 Venue: CasAcli http://www.casacli.it/it/ The Centre’s research activities are meant to improve the knowledge of human locomotor system’s structure and functioning, and to implement effective digital tools and technologies, to be used in arts, skills, and professions. The event was organized by Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico”. Program Wednesday 30th of January Arrivals 14.00 Welcome and opening – V. Camomilla 14.15 Presentation of the new BoHNeS associate member (C.E.Brandani – AISICO s.r.l.) Workshop: Applications in ergonomics 14.45 Introduction – G.Vannozzi/S.Conforto 15.00 Motorbike maneuvering analysis through ergonomics assessment – G. Vannozzi 15.30 Coffee Break 16.00 Safety indices for road barriers assessment – V. Camomilla 16.30 Numerical tools for assessment of seated comfort in transports – L. Savonnet 17.00 Application in ergonomics – F. Draicchio, INAIL 17.30 End of the session 19.00 Dinner Thursday 31st of January Interaction between Academy and Industry: tools for exploitation 9.00 Introduction – G. Rao 9.15 EU tools for exploitation – C. Buongiovanni 10.15 Experiences from the companies #1 – P.Garofalo, Turingsense EU Lab s.r.l. 11.00 Coffee Break 11.30 Experiences from the companies #2 – H. De Rosario Martinez, IBV 12.00 Experiences from the companies #3 – E.Di Stanislao, ITOP Orthopaedic Centers 12.30 Experiences from the academies: open discussion 13.00 Lunch From the idea to the product: experiences in the field of movement analysis by inertial sensing 14.15 Introduction – E. Bergamini/A. Cereatti 14.30 Design of a miniaturized multi-sensor platform – S. Bertuletti 15:00 Sensor fusion: from the idea to the product – G. Ligorio, Turingsense EU Lab s.r.l. 15.40 Coffee Break 16.00 Testing before use: what we should look at before using magneto-inertial sensors – M. Caruso 16.20 Practical session: testing the Xsens MVN Analyze – F. Salis BoHNeS EC meeting BoHNeS Executive Committee meeting 19.00 Dinner Friday 1st of February BoHNeS EC PhD students’ session and General Assembly 9.00 PhDs’ panic session 9:30 Open discussion with PhD students 10.30 Coffee break 11.00 BoHNeS General Assembly 12.00 Colloquium closing – V. Camomilla Documentation Bohnes 2019 Final ProgramDownload Bohnes 2019 CamomillaDownload Bohnes 2019 IBVDownload Bohnes 2019 ITOPDownload Bohnes 2019 LigorioDownload

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26/01/2017Third BoHNeS Colloquium

The Third Bohnes Colloquium will take place in Aix-en-Provence from January the 30th to February the 1st 2017. The colloquium is meant to improve the knowledge of human locomotor system’s structure and functioning, and to implement effective digital tools and technologies, to be used in arts, skills, and professions.

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24/06/2016Call for Applications to Italian PhD programs with scholarships reserved for foreign applicants

Two calls for applications to PhD programs are now open at University of Rome “RomaTre” and “Foro Italico”. Both calls reserve one of the available scholarships for foreign applicants who – to be considered for admission – must have earned a Graduate-Level Degree abroad.

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25/01/2016The Keynotes of ISB 2015 – Measurement Technologies by Prof. Laurence Chèze and Dr. Claudia Mazzà

As part of the series “The Keynotes of ISB 2015”, this keynote by Prof. Laurence Chèze and Dr. Claudia Mazzà focuses on Measurement Technologies. Presenting drawbacks and strengths, the lecturers give hope for the future of biomechanics.

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25/01/2016The Keynotes of ISB 2015 – Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture by Prof. Aurelio Cappozzo

As part of the series “The Keynotes of ISB 2015”, the Wartenweiler Memorial Lecture was brilliantly delivered by Prof. Aurelio Cappozzo taking a trip through the history of biomechanics to present the state of the art in the field.

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Events

21/09/2015Tutorial EMBC 2015: “Movement analysis via wearable inertial sensors: state of the art and perspectives”

IUC-BOHNES Organizers: Andrea Cereatti, Valentina Camomilla Movement analysis via wearable inertial sensors: state of the art and perspectives

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24/06/2014Seminar: “1. Localization of the center of mass of the curved human body 2. Velocity distribution …”

1. Localization of the center of mass of the curved human body 2. Velocity distribution in order to win or to break a record time based Speaker: Wod S. Erdmann, PhD, DSc (Hab.) Department of Biomechanics and Sport Engineering J. Sniadecki University School of Physical Education and Sport Gdansk, Poland

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09/01/2014Seminar: “The energy-saving benefits of the Achilles tendon during walking…”

Seminar: “The energy-saving benefits of the Achilles tendon during walking, how humans seem to screw it up, and what it means for improving prosthetic technology”. Speaker: Karl E. Zelik, Ph.D.: Laboratory of Neuromotor Physiology – IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation – Rome

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12/09/2013Seminar: “Human injury biomechanics”

Speaker: Paul C. Ivancic, PhD Assistant Professor – Biomechanics Research Laboratory – Dept of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation Yale University School of Medicine New Haven CT 06520, USA

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