Biomechanical model for musculoskeletal simulation
Megdi Eltayeb
download PDFAbstract. Musculoskeletal modeling is a technique for studying joint contact forces and moments during a movement. Subject-specific models can achieve high accuracy in estimating joint contact forces. Construction of subject-specific models, on the other hand, remains costly and time-consuming. The objective of this study was to determine what changes could be made to generic musculoskeletal models to improve the estimation of joint contact forces. The effect of these changes on the accuracy of the estimated joint contact forces was evaluated. A variety of change strategies were discovered, including muscle models (e.g., muscle length), joint angle models (e.g., angle, number of degrees of freedom), moments and optimization problems (e.g. objective function, constraints, design variables). All of these changes had an effect on joint contact force accuracy, demonstrating the potential for improving model predictions without requiring time-consuming and expensive medical techniques. However, due to inconsistencies in the literature evidence about this effect, and despite the high quality of the reviewed studies, no trend defining which change had the greatest effect could be identified.
Keywords
Biomechanical, Musculoskeletal, Modeling, OpenSim
Published online 8/10/2023, 7 pages
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Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Megdi Eltayeb, Biomechanical model for musculoskeletal simulation, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 31, pp 187-193, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902592-20
The article was published as article 20 of the book Advanced Topics in Mechanics of Materials, Structures and Construction
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