In Dijon, we dissect the movement to improve rehabilitation
REPORT – Between neurosciences, sensors and robotics, Inserm researchers seek to better understand the gesture.
Dissect one by one sequence of a movement by breaking it down millisecond by millisecond. Understand that a gesture that seems simple and natural to us, like reaching out to grab a fruit from a tree, is in fact infinitely complex… And that when something in the body has chosen to break, getting it back on the road is everything, except natural and easy.
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“Rehabilitation after an accident is often based on empirical knowledgeexplains Charalambos Papaxanthis, director of the cognition, action and sensorimotor plasticity (Caps) laboratory at Inserm, in Dijon. We apply methods that we have always applied and which, if they work most of the time, also have many limits. Many times, rehabilitation patients are undertrained, fail to fully recover, and relapse after returning home.
Backed by a high-level sports center and the Dijon University Hospital, its research laboratory makes the big difference between increasing performance…