Standardised Manual Knee Tester
Assignment: A sensor equipped device to be used in an everyday clinical setting during the execution of manual knee tests. Goal: Provision of relevant decision-making information to the orthopaedic and physiotherapeutic clinician. Added value: Standardized quantified real time data that was not available in this form until now.
Involved courses
Project description
Starting point: Mainly qualitative information about manual test execution and subjective test evaluation. Quantitative and objective test systems are large disruptive contraptions with limited clinical information.
Challenge: A minimal manual test disruptive system with accuracies of displacement and force measurement of 1 mm and 1 N respectively.
Expectations: Compact accelerometers with relatively simple force sensitive resistors deliver the force-displacement data which can be presented and processed in a software environment such as Labview.
Results: A minimalist measuring frame connected to the lower leg and upper leg that enables an undisrupted test execution and in which there is room for the sensors.
Project group
Wouter Donkers
w.donkers@student.fontys.nl
Evi Thijssen
evi.thijssen@student.fontys.nl
Gino Dieleman
g.dieleman@student.fontys.nl
Joey Kadi
j.kadi@student.fontys.nl
Julia Haentjes
julia.haentjes@student.fontys.nl
Rick Saris
r.saris@student.fontys.nl
Mitty Mak
mitty.mak@student.fontys.nl
Ruben Hoogenraad
r.hoogenraad@student.fontys.nl
Fontys tutor
Victor Snels
v.snels@fontys.nl
External partner
VOF Kinesiometrics
Gerrit van Zoest
vanzoest@kinesiometrics.nl