{"id":43212,"date":"2025-10-21T02:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/projects\/ankle-reload\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:09:42","slug":"ankle-reload","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/projects\/ankle-reload\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankle ReLoad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annually, approximately 105,000 patients are<br \/>\ntreated for an ankle fracture in the Netherlands and Germany, with a large<br \/>\nproportion of patients aged between 35 and 65 years. Besides impacting the<br \/>\npersonal lives of these patients, this also leads to additional societal costs<br \/>\ndue to absenteeism.<br \/>\nThe recovery of these fractures has been shown to be more effective when the<br \/>\njoint is actively loaded. However, it is still unclear what the optimal ankle<br \/>\nload is to promote recovery, as too much load can even be harmful and prolong<br \/>\nthe recovery process.<br \/>\nDetermining ankle load has so far only been possible in laboratory conditions<br \/>\ndue to the required complex measuring equipment. This means that individual<br \/>\npatients and their specialists do not have insight into how the joint is loaded<br \/>\nduring the recovery period at home.<br \/>\nThe goal of this project is to develop a demonstrator that is able to measure<br \/>\nankle load at home through a ambulatory measurement system with a minimal<br \/>\namount of sensors. This demonstrator will provide feedback to the patient and<br \/>\nthe healthcare professionals via a digital application.<br \/>\nFirst, the ankle load is determined very accurately through lab based<br \/>\nmeasurements for a large number of patients. In the same measurements, data<br \/>\nwill be gathered with the ambulatory measurement system with a minimal number<br \/>\nof sensors. By applying machine learning methods to the combined data from the<br \/>\nlab system and the minimal sensing system,&nbsp;&nbsp;the sensing system can be<br \/>\ntrained to determine ankle load from its limited sensors set. Continuous<br \/>\nmonitoring and interpretation of the individual load pattern at home can then<br \/>\nbe performed to study and guide optimization of the recovery process.<br \/>\nIn addition, innovative next-generation methods for measuring body movement and<br \/>\nexternal load will be developed required for a consistently high data quality<br \/>\nin future large-scale applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","pr-category":[278],"pr-priority":[288],"pr-stat":[254],"class_list":["post-43212","projects","type-projects","status-publish","hentry","pr-category-health-care-3","pr-priority-a-more-innovative-programme-area","pr-stat-new"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/43212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pr-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-category?post=43212"},{"taxonomy":"pr-priority","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-priority?post=43212"},{"taxonomy":"pr-stat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deutschland-nederland.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pr-stat?post=43212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}