IN VIVO INDENTIFICATION OF THE PASSIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DEEP SOFT TISSUES IN THE HUMAN LEG

Fanny Frauziols (1, 2) , Fanette Chassagne (3, 2, 1) , Pierre Badel (2, 1) , Laurent Navarro (2, 1) , Jérôme Molimard (2, 1) , Nicolas Curt (2, 1) , Stéphane Avril (2, 1)

1 Université de Lyon
2 SAINBIOSE - Santé Ingénierie Biologie Saint-Etienne
3 Thuasne

Compression of the lower leg using medical compression stockings or bandages is a widely used treatment. We submit that the mechanical properties of soft tissues in the lower limb play a major role during compressive treatments of venous deficiency [1] and that predictive biomechanical models could help to better adapt the treatment to the specificity of each patient. A challenging step of the development of such models is to identify the mechanical properties of soft tissues for each patient [2]-[4]. We recently developed a non-invasive and fast inverse approach to address this challenge. In this communication, the approach is described and assessed on several volunteers, showing promising results for an extension to large-size cohort of patients.

Domaines: Biomécanique [physics.med-ph]

Fanny Frauziols, Fanette Chassagne, Pierre Badel, Laurent Navarro, Jérôme Molimard, et al.. IN VIVO INDENTIFICATION OF THE PASSIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DEEP SOFT TISSUES IN THE HUMAN LEG . 22nd Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, Jul 2016, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-01406615⟩