Projects
The following projects were carried out by, or in cooperation with, the School of Health Sciences at the ZHAW.
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Influence of Sex Hormones on the Biomechanics and Injuries of the Lower Extremities in Female Recreational Athletes
Ligamentous injuries to the lower extremities are frequent and impactful. They not only generate high costs for society but can negatively influence the sporting career or activities, in recreational and professional athletes. Ligamentous injuries to the lower extremities often occur during jumping and cutting ...
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Preliminary study for an innovative lift retrofit system for people with disabilities
The company flexomobil ag was founded just a few months ago and builds on the decades of experience of Flexo-Handlauf GmbH. Flexo-Handlauf GmbH has many years of experience in retrofitting handrails in detached houses and apartment blocks, and it has become clear that retrofitting stair lifts has disadvantages as ...
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Transforming clinical assessments: Explicitly articulating implicit clinical decision-making to train AI
We are currently creating an AI algorithm using modern computer vision methods to assess movement quality in people after stroke. Our project, as many others, depends on therapist’s manual movement quality rating to create the ground truth. While therapists are trained to reliably assess movement quality in person ...
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ExerSpace
Re-injury of the knee is related to a lack of explosive training and training volume during rehabilitation, and a lack of psychological readiness. These issues could be targeted by dual tasking during exergaming whose effects on movement pattern, cognition, physis, and motivation will be assessed in the course of ...
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DICLIS - Surveying the ZHAW Diversity Climate for students at the ZHAW
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Evaluating, Identifying and REducing determinants MHC in Youth (EARLY)
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Quality indicators of polydisciplinary medical expert reports from the perspective of social security studies / law and empirical legal studies
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ZHAW Summer School for HealthTech Innovators
Planning, promotion and realisation of the 3rd ZHAW HealthTech Summer School according to the Stanford Biodesign innovation approach: 2.5 weeks in July with clinical immersions in three different medical application areas to develop disruptive Digital Health, DTx and MedTech solutions.
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Exploration of Country-specific Barriers and Facilitators for the Implementation of Physical Activity according to the EULAR Physical Activity recommendations for people with Rheumatic Musculoskeletal Diseases in four different European countries
Personal barriers and facilitators to Physical activity (PA) have been reported in several studies conducted with patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases. They were generally very similar (e.g., symptoms, erroneous beliefs, social support). However, European countries differ on factors regarding e.g., ...
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Psychosocial factors in the everyday life of refugee children in collective centers - an explorative analysis
Refugee children and their parents live in a difficult and often stressful health situation. In the study "Psychosocial factors in the everyday lives of refugee children in collective centers", we are interested in what can help children deal with their challenges. The project examines their living situation and ...