The primary objective of this repository is to gather existing studies reporting gold-standard measurements of sternoclavicular, acromioclavicular, scapulothoracic, and glenohumeral joint kinematics in a common dataset through a rigorous methodology. Combining datasets opens new avenues for more complete overviews of the shoulder girdle kinematics. First, this allows us to further document the 24 degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) of the shoulder girdle (4 joints x 6 DoFs per joint) during various standardised arm motions. Second, this should minimise experimental bias as original datasets are sourced from ex vivo or in vivo experiments with different measuring techniques and kinematic processing. Third, this may facilitate study comparisons by providing a unified convention for kinematics re-processing.
The secondary objective of this repository is to propose a toolbox to complete the present dataset with new measurements, ensuring the homogeneity of data. For that, a set of tools are and will be added to this repository to allow data related to most common approaches to be transformed into the standards of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB)[1].
[1] Ge Wu, Frans C.T. van der Helm, H.E.J. (DirkJan) Veeger, Mohsen Makhsous, Peter Van Roy, Carolyn Anglin, Jochem Nagels, Andrew R. Karduna, Kevin McQuade, Xuguang Wang, Frederick W. Werner, Bryan Buchholz, ISB recommendation on definitions of joint coordinate systems of various joints for the reporting of human joint motion—Part II: shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, Journal of Biomechanics, Volume 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 981-992, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2004.05.042.
This repository and the SPARTACUS project are co-managed by:
- Florent Moissenet (PhD), Biomechanics Laboratory and Kinesiology Laboratory, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Pierre Puchaud (PhD), Laboratoire de Simulation et Modélisation du Mouvement, Département de Kinésiologie, Université de Montréal, and Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine, Montréal, Canada
- Alexandre Naaim (PhD), Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Gustave Eiffel, LBMC UMR_T9406, Lyon, France