Inti Vanmechelen

Inti Vanmechelen graduated Magna Cum Laude as a Movement Scientist with a master in Research in Biomedical Kinesiology. She performed her masters internship at the Gait Lab in Guy's Hospital (London), where she additionally wrote an award-winning paper on muscle volume estimations in ambulatory children with CP.

She performed her PhD at the KU Leuven in Bruges, focusing on upper limb movement patterns in children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy. Throughout her PhD, she worked on unraveling the complex upper limb motion patterns in children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy using three-dimensional motion analysis and wearable sensors. This work resulted in 5 first-author publications of which 2 used three-dimensional motion analysis, 2 used wearable sensors and 1 used markerless motion tracking, Additionally during her PhD, she validated the use of the Dyskinesia Impairment Scale for children and adolescents with inherited and idiopathic dystonia and developed a shortened version of this scale using Rasch Analysis. This work additionally resulted in 2 first-author publications.

Currently, she works as a postdoctoral research fellow at KI KBH on 3D gait analysis data of children with CP. The objective of this postdoctoral project is to develop a research database collecting gait analysis and clinical examination data of retrospective clinical data. This data will be used to validate gait pattern classifications using both 3D gait analysis as well as video data. Finally, longitudinal follow-up will be explored to assess the long-term effect of different interventions on ambulatory function in children with CP and their gait classification pattern.

cerebral palsy

biomechanics

gait analysis

upper limb motion analysis

markerless motion tracking

machine learning

Guest lecturer for the Occupational Therapy courses at KI.