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"Exercising is healthy, especially if you respect the limits of your own body and build in sufficient rest and recuperation. But with endurance sports it is not impossible that you will overload your body.

Our annual research group meeting took place in Prague this year and was spread over two days. Two days to look back at the past, successful year and to prepare for the coming year.

PhD researcher Jo Ghillebert publishes a brand new systematic review on: 'guidelines and recommendations to investigate the efficacy of a lower limb prosthesis'.   Click here for the full paper. 

During the last state mission of October 2019, the start of an interesting collaboration between our research group MFYS and the Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science was officialized.

Prof. Bas de Geus over het gebruik van oortjes of koptelefoon tijdens het fietsen!  Lees verder hier. 

Bram Vanderborght, professor robotica aan Brubotics, het roboticalab van de VUB.   Pas na heel veel fundamenteel onderzoek kan een onderzoeker zijn labo achter zich laten om met zijn uitvinding ondernemer te worden.

Creatine supplementation improved physical (strength endurance) and prolonged cognitive (Stroop accuracy) performance. Creatine supplementation had no effect on short sport-specific psychomotor or cognitive (Flanker) performance, nor did it have any effect on the mental fatigue-induced...

On 03 September 2019, an Equivital workshop for Brubotics researchers was organised at MFYS. Demonstrations were held and the hardware and software were discussed in detail.

On 21 March Catherine Bidard, Sander De Bock (MFYS), Simona Crea, Kevin De Pauw (MFYS), Danijela Ristic Durrant, Shirley A.