Title

Muscle Synergy Constraints Improve Prediction of Knee Contact Force during Gait

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

6-2013

Publication Source

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2013 Summer Bioengineering Conference

Abstract

Knowledge of patient-specific muscle and joint contact forces during activities of daily living could improve the treatment of movement-related disorders (e.g., osteoarthritis, stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease). Unfortunately, it is currently impossible to measure these quantities directly under common clinical conditions, and calculation of these quantities using computer models is limited by the redundant nature of human neural control (i.e., more muscles than theoretically necessary to actuate the available degrees of freedom in the skeleton). Walking is a particularly important task to understand, since loss of mobility is associated with increased morbidity and decreased quality of life. Though numerous musculoskeletal computer modeling studies have used optimization methods to resolve the neural control redundancy problem, these estimates remain unvalidated due to the lack of internal force measurements that can be used for validation purposes.

ISBN/ISSN

9780791855614

Publisher

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Volume

1B

Place of Publication

Sunriver, OR

Peer Reviewed

yes

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