215 1 Assistant Professor and CCRF Research Chair in Rehabilitation Epidemiology, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, 3630 Promenade Sir-William-Osler Hosmer House, Room 205, Centre de réadaptation Constance-Lethbridge Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Readaptation (CRIR) Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1Y5 Tel. #: (514) 398-4400 ext 00849 F...

This work deals with modeling in immersive virtual environments. We present MuscleAssemblyLab (MAL), a tool to create musculo-skeletal layers for virtual humanoids. With modular interaction metaphors it supports various inputand output-devices ranging from classical desktop systems to virtual reality hardware. This enabled us to conduct a comparative user study between non-immersive and immersi...

Vibration stimulates specific receptors, cutaneous and musculo-tendinous. The aff erent impulses travel through spinal neurons to thalamus and cortical structures. The local muscular response to a vibration is a tonic vibratory refl ex. This refl ex depends on many factors: frequency, amplitude, and tendon and muscle length. Based upon this refl ex, vibration produced alteration of isometric an...

Both giant synovial osteochondroma and parosteal osteosarcoma are rare musculo-skeletal tumors, often localized in the vicinity of the knee. Misdiagnosis of a malignant bone tumor can entail fatal consequences. Etiology of giant synovial osteochondroma is widely unsolved but is believed to originate from synovial chondromatosis, a mostly benign metaplasia of the synovial membrane. Parosteal ost...

The differential diagnosis includes musculo-tendinous injury, tibial compartment syndrome, tenosynovitis, intermittent claudication of the athlete and stress fracture. A presumptive diagnosis of stress fracture is based on the history and physical findings. In the past, confirmation of stress fractures has been delayed until x-rays showed an abnormality, often from three weeks to three months a...