Biomechanics, movement analysis and human-machine connections
The Biomechanical Laboratory conducts outstanding research mainly in neurological rehabilitation, using world-class equipment. With the help of the available robotic systems, there is now an opportunity to examine the long term effects of spinal cord damage. Another robotics research area is the neuro-rehabilitation of patients with restricted walking abilities after a stroke and the identification of mediating neurological and physiological processes, and implementing higher quality patient care and rehabilitation overarching the research results.
Our research program designed with the help of a non-invasive movement analyses system is also a featured research topic: it provides excellent opportunities for the diagnostics of various central or peripheral origin gait disturbances, the objective tracking of the success of rehabilitation programs and the status of patients, and the “manager” screening of healthy persons.
By integrating these systems, rehabilitation research and patient care projects belonging to the forefront our current times could be realised under the cooperation of various research groups. The Biomechanical Laboratory provides clinical, professional expertise and analytic locations for the realisation of shared research-development projects with the 3D Printing and Visualisation Centre’s Material Technology and 3D Modelling workgroups, from which the shared development and clinical trials of personalised orthoses, prostheses and robotic tools are prominent. In the near future, we are aiming to develop and validate modules with the Simulation and AR-VR workgroups that make the integration of “gamification” in rehabilitation possible, making it easier to form an easier and closer cooperation with patients during longer therapy.
The project would also include the examination of psychological and physiological effects of these virtual systems. Aside from shared development projects, fulfilling education tasks and mentoring the scientific research of students in the Hungarian and English language pre-gradual and post-gradual courses in cooperation with the Medical Skills Education and Innovation Centre is also of prominent importance.