ArticleErgonomics2025
The effect of a soft active back support exosuit on trunk motion and thoracolumbar spine loading during squat and stoop lifts.
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- Evaluating Different Optimization Criteria for Estimating Spine Loads and Muscle Activity During Manual Lifting With and Without Assistance from Back-Support Exoskeletons.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Preference-based assistance optimization for lifting and lowering with a soft back exosuit.Science advances · 2025Article
- The perceptual and biomechanical effects of scaling back exosuit assistance to changing task demands.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Musculoskeletal models determine the effect of a soft active exosuit on muscle activations and forces during lifting and lowering tasks.Journal of biomechanics · 2024Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrection.2025
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Abstract
Back support exosuits aim to reduce tissue demands and thereby risk of injury and pain. However, biomechanical analyses of soft active exosuit designs have been limited. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a soft active back support exosuit on trunk motion and thoracolumbar spine loading in participants performing stoop and squat lifts of 6 and 10 kg crates, using participant-specific musculoskeletal models. The exosuit did not change overall trunk motion but affected lumbo-pelvic motion slightly, and reduced peak compressive and shear vertebral loads at some levels, although shear increased slightly at others. This study indicates that soft active exosuits have limited kinematic effects during lifting, and can reduce spinal loading depending on the vertebral level. These results support the hypothesis that a soft exosuit can assist without limiting trunk movement or negatively impacting skeletal loading and have implications for future design and ergonomic intervention efforts.
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