Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon
Whether it is from the patient’s or the physical therapist’s point of view, FES cycling can be considered either as a recreational activity, or an engaging rehabilitation tool. In both cases, it keeps patients with lower-limb paralysis motivated to sustain a regular physical activity. Thus, it is no...
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| author | Amine Metani Lana Popović-Maneski Sebastien Mateo Laura Lemahieu Vance Bergeron |
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| description | Whether it is from the patient’s or the physical therapist’s point of view, FES cycling can be considered either as a recreational activity, or an engaging rehabilitation tool. In both cases, it keeps patients with lower-limb paralysis motivated to sustain a regular physical activity. Thus, it is not surprising that it was selected as one of the six disciplines of the first Cybathlon competition held on October 8, 2016. However, many unresolved issues prevent FES cycling from being an activity practiced outdoors on a daily basis; such as, low power production, rapid muscle fatigue, precise electrode positioning, lack of systematic procedures to determine stimulation patterns, and the difficulty of transferring disabled riders from their wheelchair to the tricycle. This article documents the challenges we faced during preparation for the Cybathlon 2016 FES cycling race, and provides results obtained during different phases of the process. A particular specificity of our team was that, unlike most other teams where pilots were mainly paraplegic, both the primary and backup pilots for team ENS de Lyon are C6/C7 tetraplegics, with neither voluntary control of their abdominal muscles nor hand grip, and only partial use of their arms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37d2c3437e4245f9978af193f39132562022-12-22T03:43:35ZengPAGEPress PublicationsEuropean Journal of Translational Myology2037-74522037-74602017-12-0127410.4081/ejtm.2017.71105485Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de LyonAmine Metani0Lana Popović-Maneski1Sebastien Mateo2Laura Lemahieu3Vance Bergeron4École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, LyonInstitute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, BelgradeÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, Lyon, France; Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia; Université de Lyon, Université de Lyon 1, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, ImpAct Team, Lyon; Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Henry Gabrielle, Plateforme Mouvement et Handicap, LyonÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, LyonÉcole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5672, LyonWhether it is from the patient’s or the physical therapist’s point of view, FES cycling can be considered either as a recreational activity, or an engaging rehabilitation tool. In both cases, it keeps patients with lower-limb paralysis motivated to sustain a regular physical activity. Thus, it is not surprising that it was selected as one of the six disciplines of the first Cybathlon competition held on October 8, 2016. However, many unresolved issues prevent FES cycling from being an activity practiced outdoors on a daily basis; such as, low power production, rapid muscle fatigue, precise electrode positioning, lack of systematic procedures to determine stimulation patterns, and the difficulty of transferring disabled riders from their wheelchair to the tricycle. This article documents the challenges we faced during preparation for the Cybathlon 2016 FES cycling race, and provides results obtained during different phases of the process. A particular specificity of our team was that, unlike most other teams where pilots were mainly paraplegic, both the primary and backup pilots for team ENS de Lyon are C6/C7 tetraplegics, with neither voluntary control of their abdominal muscles nor hand grip, and only partial use of their arms.http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/7110FES-cyclingCybathlonSpinal Cord Injury |
| spellingShingle | Amine Metani Lana Popović-Maneski Sebastien Mateo Laura Lemahieu Vance Bergeron Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon European Journal of Translational Myology FES-cycling Cybathlon Spinal Cord Injury |
| title | Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon |
| title_full | Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon |
| title_fullStr | Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon |
| title_short | Functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the First Cybathlon Competition – a practical report from team ENS de Lyon |
| title_sort | functional electrical stimulation cycling strategies tested during preparation for the first cybathlon competition a practical report from team ens de lyon |
| topic | FES-cycling Cybathlon Spinal Cord Injury |
| url | http://www.pagepressjournals.org/index.php/bam/article/view/7110 |
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