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Krishnan P, Koh J, Pradhan S, Bobko A, Athiviraham A, Amirouche F. Analysis of abduction moment arms after rotator cuff tear and acellular dermal matrix allograft reconstruction. J Shoulder Elbow Surg 2023; 32:2207-2213. [PMID: 37276919 DOI: 10.1016/j.jse.2023.04.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Biomechanical testing of abduction moment arms presents a useful method to assess the contributions of individual rotator cuff muscles to glenohumeral function. This study aimed to investigate the changes in abduction moment arms after the treatment of supraspinatus tears with superior capsular reconstruction (SCR), bursal acromial reconstruction (BAR), and a combined SCR-BAR procedure, all with human dermal allograft. METHODS We tested 7 fresh-frozen cadaveric specimens under 6 conditions: (1) intact, (2) 50% supraspinatus tear (partial tear), (3) 100% supraspinatus tear, (4) SCR, (5) SCR combined with BAR, and (6) BAR. In each condition, the moment arms for the individual muscles of the teres minor, subscapularis, and infraspinatus were calculated throughout 90° of abduction using a motion capture system. Analysis of variance and post hoc Tukey testing were performed to determine significance. RESULTS In the teres minor, the moment arms in the SCR (11.9 mm), BAR (10.1 mm), and SCR-BAR (11.9 mm) conditions were greater than those in the intact (8.5 mm; P = .001, P = .001, and P = .001, respectively), partial tear (9.1 mm; P = .001, P = .128, and P = .001, respectively), and complete tear (8.8 mm; P = .001, P = .011, and P = .001, respectively) conditions. Similarly, in the subscapularis, the moment arms in the SCR (13.4 mm), BAR (13.8 mm), and SCR-BAR (13.5 mm) conditions were greater than those in the intact (10.6 mm; P = .006, P = .001, and P = .003, respectively) and partial tear (10.4 mm; P = .006, P = .001, and P = .003, respectively) conditions. In the teres minor, the SCR (11.9 mm) and SCR-BAR (11.9 mm) conditions were also found to have significantly increased moment arms compared with the BAR condition (10.1 mm; P = .001 and P = .001, respectively). In the infraspinatus, the BAR condition (13.8 mm) was found to have a significantly decreased moment arm compared with the partial tear condition (15.8 mm, P = .026), with no other significant findings between conditions. CONCLUSION Our results suggest that the moment arm contributions of the individual muscles comprising the rotator cuff can change after reconstruction to compensate for tears. SCR and SCR-BAR increase the moment arms in the teres minor and subscapularis, potentially allowing for increased abduction ability.
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- Pranav Krishnan
- Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Chicago, IL, USA
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Kedadria A, Benabid Y, Remil O, Benaouali A, May A, Ramtani S. A Shoulder Musculoskeletal Model with Three-Dimensional Complex Muscle Geometries. Ann Biomed Eng 2023; 51:1079-1093. [PMID: 37022653 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-023-03189-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2022] [Accepted: 03/21/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Muscle structure is an essential component in typical computational models of the musculoskeletal system. Almost all musculoskeletal models represent muscle geometry using a set of line segments. The straight-line approach limits models' ability to accurately predict the paths of muscles with complex geometry. This approach needs knowledge of how the muscle changes shape and interacts with fundamental structures like muscles, bones, and joints that move. Moreover, the moment arms are supposed to be equivalent to all the fibers in the muscle. This study aims to create a shoulder musculoskeletal model that includes complex muscle geometries. We reconstructed the shape of fibers in the entire volume of six muscles adjacent to the shoulder using an automated technique. This method generates many fibers from the surface geometry of the skeletal muscle and its attachment areas. Highly discretized muscle representations for all muscles were created and used to simulate different shoulder movements. The moment arms of each muscle were calculated and validated against cadaveric measurements and models of the same muscles from the literature. We found that simulations using the developed musculoskeletal models generated more realistic geometries, which expands the physical representation of muscles compared to line segments. The shoulder musculoskeletal model with complex muscle geometry is created to increase the anatomical reality of models and the lines action of muscle fibers, and to be used for finite element investigations.
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- Abderrazak Kedadria
- Mechanical System Design Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Boite Postale 17, Commune de Bordj El Bahri, 16046, Algiers, Algeria
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- Mechanical System Design Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Boite Postale 17, Commune de Bordj El Bahri, 16046, Algiers, Algeria
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- Mechanical System Design Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Boite Postale 17, Commune de Bordj El Bahri, 16046, Algiers, Algeria
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- Mechanical System Design Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Boite Postale 17, Commune de Bordj El Bahri, 16046, Algiers, Algeria
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- Mechanical System Design Laboratory, Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Boite Postale 17, Commune de Bordj El Bahri, 16046, Algiers, Algeria.
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- Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, CSPBA-LBPS, UMR CNRS 7244, Inst Galilee, 99 Ave JB Clement, Villetaneuse, France
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Zuppke JN, Bennett HJ, Ringleb SI. The effect of subtalar joint axis location on muscle moment arms. J Biomech 2023; 147:111451. [PMID: 36680888 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Most dynamic musculoskeletal models define the subtalar joint (STJ) as a one degree of freedom (DOF) hinge with a tri-planar axis. The orientation of this axis of rotation is often determined as a combination of inclination and deviation angles measured from the ground and midline of the foot, respectively. In defining the location of the axis, often the origin is found at the distal aspect of the heel instead of at the articulation of the talus and calcaneus. Key musculoskeletal modeling definitions, such as muscle moment arms, are dependent on the distance and relative location of muscle insertion to the axis of rotation. Since the axis orientation and origin location affect calculations of muscle moment arm and joint dynamics, there is much need for accurate characterization of the STJ axis to understand the STJ's role in dynamic weight-bearing motion. The purpose of this study is to explore how the STJ origin location and axis orientation affect muscle moment arms surrounding the ankle. Datasets from the Grand Knee Challenge, posted on the open-source SimTK website, were modeled using OpenSim. Modifying the location of the STJ axis from the original location closer to the articulation between the talus and calcaneus resulted in significant differences in STJ muscle moment arms and peak STJ moments. The findings of this study conclude that the location of the STJ axis origin needs to be considered and accurately defined, especially if the inclination/deviation angles of the rotational axis will be modified to represent a more subject-specific definition.
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- Julia N Zuppke
- Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, VA, United States
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Hoffmann M, Begon M, Assila N, St-Pierre MO, Bertrand-Grenier A, Duprey S, Sobczak S. Moment arms of the deltoid, infraspinatus and teres minor muscles for movements with high range of motion: A cadaveric study. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2022; 97:105685. [PMID: 35671631 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2022.105685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Moment arms are an indicator of the role of the muscles in joint actuation. An excursion method is often used to calculate them, even though it provides 1D results. As shoulder movement occurs in three dimensions (combination of flexion, abduction and axial rotation), moment arms should be given in 3D. Our objective was to assess the 3D moment arms of the rotator cuff (infraspinatus and teres minor) and deltoid muscles for movements with high arm elevation. METHODS The 3D moment arms (components in plane of elevation, elevation and axial rotation) were assessed using a geometric method, enabling to calculate the moment arms in 3D, on five fresh post-mortem human shoulders. Movement with high range of motion were performed (including overhead movement). The humerus was elevated until it reaches its maximal posture in different elevation plane (flexion, scaption, abduction and elevation in a plane 30° posterior to frontal plane). FINDINGS We found that the anterior deltoid was a depressor and contributes to move the elevation plane anteriorly. The median deltoid was a great elevator and the posterior deltoid mostly acted in moving the elevation plane posteriorly. The infraspinatus and teres minor were the greatest external rotator of the shoulder. The position of the glenohumeral joint induces changes in the muscular moment arms. The maximal shoulder elevation was 144° (performed in the scapular plane). INTERPRETATION The knowledge of 3D moment arms for different arm elevations might help surgeons in planning tendon reconstructive surgery and help validate musculoskeletal models.
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- Marion Hoffmann
- Institute of biomedical engineering, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
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- Institute of biomedical engineering, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada; School of kinesiology and physical activity sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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- School of kinesiology and physical activity sciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada; Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Gustave Eiffel, LBMC UMR_T9406, F69622, Lyon, France
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- Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux Mauricie et Centre-du-Québec, Trois-Rivières, Canada
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- Univ Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Univ Gustave Eiffel, LBMC UMR_T9406, F69622, Lyon, France
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- Département d'anatomie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada; Chaire de recherche en anatomie fonctionnelle, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada; Groupe de recherche sur les affections neuro-musculosquelettiques, Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada
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Dolan MT, Patetta MJ, Pradhan S, Peresada D, Rybalko D, Bobko A, Koh JL, Shi L, Goldberg BA, Amirouche F. Evaluation of rotator cuff abduction moment arms for superior capsular reconstruction and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. Int Orthop 2021; 45:1767-74. [PMID: 34027565 DOI: 10.1007/s00264-021-05066-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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PURPOSE The rotator cuff (RC) muscles contribute to dynamic stability and rotational actions of the glenohumeral joint. Moment arm can be used to demonstrate the potential work a muscle contributes to a musculoskeletal joint rotation. This study aimed to understand the moment arm contributions of the RC muscles and explore changes following a complete supraspinatus tear treated with either superior capsular reconstruction (SCR) or reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA). METHODS Five fresh-frozen cadaveric specimens were prepared and mounted in an apparatus where each intact RC muscle was held in tension with a line of action toward its origin on the scapula. Mean moment arms for each muscle were determined experimentally based on Optotrak data collected during cadaveric shoulder arm abduction. RESULTS Using ANOVA testing, our analysis demonstrated significant differences (p < 0.001) in infraspinatus and teres minor moment arms after rTSA compared to the intact shoulder model. After SCR, significant differences (p < 0.001) were seen in teres minor, with these differences being statistically similar to the changes seen in teres minor after rTSA. Subscapularis showed no significant difference in moment arm values between the models (p = 0.148). CONCLUSION Our results illustrate that mean moment arms were preserved in the RC muscles after complete supraspinatus tear. This study also shows evidence that subscapularis function may be maintained after SCR or rTSA. After SCR, infraspinatus may maintain similar abduction ability compared to the anatomical shoulder, while teres minor ability may increase. Infraspinatus may have decreased abduction ability after rTSA while teres minor may have increased ability.
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Nardello F, Bombieri F, Monte A. Leverage mechanical alterations during walking at self-selected speed in patients with Parkinson's disease. Gait Posture 2020; 79:175-182. [PMID: 32422557 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2020.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Revised: 12/30/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) show poor walking performance compared to healthy adults. Leverage changes may provide insight into this walking abnormality, since they have important effects on both biomechanical and physiological variables. Hence, we investigated the differences in internal and external moment arms at the knee and ankle joints, as well as the effective mechanical advantage during walking at self-selected speed. Furthermore, the effects on walking of a simultaneous cognitive task were analysed. Kinetic (resultant ground reaction force and joint moments), kinematic (movement speed) and mechanical leverage (internal and external moment arms) parameters of 10 mild-to-moderate PD patients and 10 age-matched controls were measured in single and dual task condition. Finally, effective mechanical advantage was calculated as the ratio between internal and external moment arm for each joint. PD patients had a slower walking and showed larger and lower values of knee and ankle joint moments, respectively. No difference in force among groups was recorded. External moment arms were larger (in both joints) for PD, whereas slight changes were observed for internal moment arms. Consequently, effective mechanical advantage values seemed to be lower for PD. Surprisingly, leverage difference among groups was reduced during the dual task condition, resulting in a "more effective" walking strategy for PD. These findings suggest that during single task PD patients have several leverage disadvantages, which could affect the joint assessment. On the contrary, during dual task they reduced these mechanical negative effects by positively obtaining normal values of effective mechanical advantage.
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- F Nardello
- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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Modenese L, Kohout J. Automated Generation of Three-Dimensional Complex Muscle Geometries for Use in Personalised Musculoskeletal Models. Ann Biomed Eng 2020; 48:1793-804. [PMID: 32185569 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-020-02490-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2019] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The geometrical representation of muscles in computational models of the musculoskeletal system typically consists of a series of line segments. These muscle anatomies are based on measurements from a limited number of cadaveric studies that recently have been used as atlases for creating subject-specific models from medical images, so potentially restricting the options for personalisation and assessment of muscle geometrical models. To overcome this methodological limitation, we propose a novel, completely automated technique that, from a surface geometry of a skeletal muscle and its attachment areas, can generate an arbitrary number of lines of action (fibres) composed by a user-defined number of straight-line segments. These fibres can be included in standard musculoskeletal models and used in biomechanical simulations. This methodology was applied to the surfaces of four muscles surrounding the hip joint (iliacus, psoas, gluteus maximus and gluteus medius), segmented on magnetic resonance imaging scans from a cadaveric dataset, for which highly discretised muscle representations were created and used to simulate functional tasks. The fibres’ moment arms were validated against measurements and models of the same muscles from the literature with promising outcomes. The proposed approach is expected to improve the anatomical representation of skeletal muscles in personalised biomechanical models and finite element applications.
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Goh C, Blanchard ML, Crompton RH, Gunther MM, Macaulay S, Bates KT. A Three-Dimensional Musculoskeletal Model of the Western Lowland Gorilla Foot: Examining Muscle Torques and Function. Folia Primatol (Basel) 2019; 90:470-493. [PMID: 31288221 DOI: 10.1159/000499653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Due to difficulty of obtaining accurate quantitative data on foot muscles, relatively little has been done to study foot muscle function in non-human apes. Gorilla feet are known to be similar in bony proportions and mechanics to those of humans, hence are key to understanding human foot evolution and its ecological context. We present the first 3D musculoskeletal computer model of a western lowland gorilla foot, giving muscle torques about the tarsometatarsal, metatarsophalangeal and interphalangeal joints of digits 2-5. Peak flexor torque around the fifth metatarsophalangeal joint occurs at a highly flexed position, suggesting an ability to maintain flexed postures around lateral metatarsophalangeal joints, useful for grasping vertical supports. For distal interphalangeal joints, flexor torques peaked the more medial the digit at relatively flexed postures. We report, for the first time, interossei acting upon proximal and distal interphalangeal joints. All these facilitate maintenance of flexed positions around distal interphalangeal joints, likely used for grasping of small supports/objects. Humans lack these features, suggesting that semi-arboreal early hominins made less use of the peripheral canopy than gorillines. Information here could be used in gorilla enclosure design to encourage wild-type locomotor repertoires in captivity.
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- Colleen Goh
- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom,
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- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Eskinazi I, Fregly BJ. A computational framework for simultaneous estimation of muscle and joint contact forces and body motion using optimization and surrogate modeling. Med Eng Phys 2018; 54:56-64. [PMID: 29487037 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2018.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2017] [Revised: 01/11/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Concurrent estimation of muscle activations, joint contact forces, and joint kinematics by means of gradient-based optimization of musculoskeletal models is hindered by computationally expensive and non-smooth joint contact and muscle wrapping algorithms. We present a framework that simultaneously speeds up computation and removes sources of non-smoothness from muscle force optimizations using a combination of parallelization and surrogate modeling, with special emphasis on a novel method for modeling joint contact as a surrogate model of a static analysis. The approach allows one to efficiently introduce elastic joint contact models within static and dynamic optimizations of human motion. We demonstrate the approach by performing two optimizations, one static and one dynamic, using a pelvis-leg musculoskeletal model undergoing a gait cycle. We observed convergence on the order of seconds for a static optimization time frame and on the order of minutes for an entire dynamic optimization. The presented framework may facilitate model-based efforts to predict how planned surgical or rehabilitation interventions will affect post-treatment joint and muscle function.
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- Ilan Eskinazi
- Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
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Garland AK, Shah DS, Kedgley AE. Wrist tendon moment arms: Quantification by imaging and experimental techniques. J Biomech 2018; 68:136-40. [PMID: 29306550 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.12.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Subject-specific musculoskeletal models require accurate values of muscle moment arms. The aim of this study was to compare moment arms of wrist tendons obtained from non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to those obtained from an in vitro experimental approach. MRI was performed on ten upper limb cadaveric specimens to obtain the centrelines for the flexor carpi radialis (FCR), flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU), extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL), extensor carpi radialis brevis (ECRB), extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU), and abductor pollicis longus (APL) tendons. From these, the anatomical moment arms about each of the flexion-extension (FE) and radioulnar deviation (RUD) axes of the wrist were calculated. Specimens were mounted on a physiologic wrist simulator to obtain functional measurements of the moment arms using the tendon excursion method. No differences were observed between anatomical and functional values of the FE and RUD moment arms of FCR, ECRL and ECRB, and the RUD moment arm of ECU (p > .075). Scaling the anatomical moment arms relative to ECRB in FE and ECU in RUD reduced differences in the FE moment arm of FCU and the RUD moment arm of APL to less than 15% (p > .139). However, differences persisted in moment arms of FCU in RUD, and ECU and APL in FE (p < .008). This study shows that while measurements of moment arms of wrist tendons using imaging do not always conform to values obtained using in vitro experimental approaches, a stricter protocol could result in the acquisition of subject-specific moment arms to personalise musculoskeletal models.
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Hösl M, Böhm H, Seltmann M, Dussa CU, Döderlein L. Relationship between radiographic patella-alta pathology and walking dysfunction in children with bilateral spastic Cerebral Palsy. Gait Posture 2018; 60:28-34. [PMID: 29149666 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2016] [Revised: 11/02/2017] [Accepted: 11/09/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Patella-alta is very common in patients with Cerebral Palsy (CP). While several diagnostic x-ray indices have been developed for patella-alta in general, the specific relationship with walking dysfunction in CP is only partly understood. METHODS 33 participants with bilateral spastic CP between 4 and 20 years (GMFCS I-II without previous surgery) that underwent 3D gait analysis as well as a radiographic exam within 0.8 (SD 1.2) months were retrospectively included. The Caton-Deschamps, the Insall-Salvati and the Koshino-Index, as well as the moment-arms of the quadriceps, the pattelar-tendon length and patellar tilt angle were analyzed from x-rays. During gait, tempo-spatial parameters, the knee flexion kinematics, the knee moments and the moment impulse were calculated and correlated to x-ray parameters. RESULTS Smaller quadriceps moment-arms were related to slower walking speed (r=0.48, P=0.005) and less knee extension during stance (r=0.68 P<0.001). Smaller quadriceps moment arms and longer patellar-tendons were also significantly related to a larger knee flexion moment impulse in the second half of the stance phase (r=-0.36, P=0.045 and r=0.39, P=0.028) and hence to more abnormal knee loads. Yet, none of the traditional indices was related to any parameter of gait. INTERPRETATION Traditional radiographic indices for patella-alta possess little to no informative value for walking dysfunction in individuals with CP suspected to have knee pathology. Smaller moment-arms are a key feature of patellofemoral pathology in CP reducing the knee extensor mechanism, an aspect which is not sufficiently picked up by traditional indices.
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- Matthias Hösl
- Schön Klinik Bad Aibling, Hospital for Neurology and Neurological Rehabilitation, Kolbermoorer Str. 72, 83043, Bad Aibling, Germany.
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- Orthopaedic Hospital for Children, Behandlungszentrum Aschau GmbH, Bernauer Str. 18, 83229, Aschau im Chiemgau, Germany
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- Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technische Universität München, Uptown München-Campus D, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62, 80992, München, Germany; Schön Klinik München Harlaching, Harlachinger Straße 51, 81547, München, Germany
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- Orthopaedic Hospital for Children, Behandlungszentrum Aschau GmbH, Bernauer Str. 18, 83229, Aschau im Chiemgau, Germany
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- Orthopaedic Hospital for Children, Behandlungszentrum Aschau GmbH, Bernauer Str. 18, 83229, Aschau im Chiemgau, Germany
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Goislard De Monsabert B, Edwards D, Shah D, Kedgley A. Importance of Consistent Datasets in Musculoskeletal Modelling: A Study of the Hand and Wrist. Ann Biomed Eng 2018; 46:71-85. [PMID: 28971327 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-017-1936-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Hand musculoskeletal models provide a valuable insight into the loads withstood by the upper limb; however, their development remains challenging because there are few datasets describing both the musculoskeletal geometry and muscle morphology from the elbow to the finger tips. Clinical imaging, optical motion capture and microscopy were used to create a dataset from a single specimen. Subsequently, a musculoskeletal model of the wrist was developed based on these data to estimate muscle tensions and to demonstrate the potential of the provided parameters. Tendon excursions and moment arms predicted by this model were in agreement with previously reported experimental data. When simulating a flexion–extension motion, muscle forces reached 90 N among extensors and a co-contraction of flexors, amounting to 62.6 N, was estimated by the model. Two alternative musculoskeletal models were also created based on anatomical data available in the literature to illustrate the effect of combining incomplete datasets. Compared to the initial model, the intensities and load sharing of the muscles estimated by the two alternative models differed by up to 180% for a single muscle. This confirms the importance of using a single source of anatomical data when developing such models.
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Petrovic M, Deschamps K, Verschueren SM, Bowling FL, Maganaris CN, Boulton AJM, Reeves ND. Altered leverage around the ankle in people with diabetes: A natural strategy to modify the muscular contribution during walking? Gait Posture 2017; 57:85-90. [PMID: 28578139 DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.05.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 03/08/2017] [Accepted: 05/16/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Diabetes patients display gait alterations compared to controls including a higher metabolic cost of walking. This study aimed to investigate whether differences in external moment arm (ExtMA) and effective mechanical advantage (EMA) at the ankle in diabetes patients could partly explain the increased cost of walking compared to controls. Thirty one non-diabetic controls (Ctrl); 22 diabetes patients without peripheral neuropathy (DM) and 14 patients with moderate/severe diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) underwent gait analysis using a motion analysis system and force plates. The internal Achilles tendon moment arm length was determined using magnetic resonance imaging during weight-bearing and ExtMA was calculated using gait analysis. A greater value (P<0.01) for the EMA at the ankle was found in the DPN (0.488) and DM (0.46) groups compared to Ctrl (0.448). The increased EMA was mainly caused by a smaller ExtMA in the DPN (9.63cm; P<0.01) and DM (10.31cm) groups compared to Ctrl (10.42cm) These findings indicate that the ankle plantarflexor muscles would need to generate lower forces to overcome the external resistance during walking compared to controls. Our findings do not explain the previously observedhigher metabolic cost of walking in the DM and DPN groups, but uncover a new mechanism through which patients with diabetes and particularly those with DPN reduce the joint moment at the ankle during walking: by applying the ground reaction force more proximally on the foot, or at an angle directed more towards the ankle, thereby increasing the EMA and reducing the ankle joint moment.
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- Milos Petrovic
- School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
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- Faculty of Medical & Human Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
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- Faculty of Medical & Human Sciences, University of Manchester, UK; University of Miami School of Medicine, Diabetes Research Institute, United States.
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- School of Healthcare Science, Faculty of Science & Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
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Bi-articular muscles cross more than one joint and contribute to motion at both joints, and the extremities of the human body contain several such muscles. Actions produced by all muscles are determined, to a large extent, by joint moment arms and muscle length. These are transient factors which change as joint angles are altered. Measuring muscle moments while manipulating both joints will produce a better understanding of the actions of bi-articular muscles. This review summarizes investigations which have explored the actions of the biceps brachii as shoulder and elbow joints are moved into various angle combinations. Clinical implications of the findings are discussed.
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- Dennis Landin
- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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- School of Kinesiology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Bates K, Maidment SCR, Schachner ER, Barrett PM. Comments and corrections on 3D modeling studies of locomotor muscle moment arms in archosaurs. PeerJ 2015; 3:e1272. [PMID: 26500810 PMCID: PMC4614809 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 09/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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In a number of recent studies we used computer modeling to investigate the evolution of muscle leverage (moment arms) and function in extant and extinct archosaur lineages (crocodilians, dinosaurs including birds and pterosaurs). These studies sought to quantify the level of disparity and convergence in muscle moment arms during the evolution of bipedal and quadrupedal posture in various independent archosaur lineages, and in doing so further our understanding of changes in anatomy, locomotion and ecology during the group’s >250 million year evolutionary history. Subsequent work by others has led us to re-evaluate our models, which revealed a methodological error that impacted on the results obtained from the abduction–adduction and long-axis rotation moment arms in our published studies. In this paper we present corrected abduction–adduction and long axis rotation moment arms for all our models, and evaluate the impact of this new data on the conclusions of our previous studies. We find that, in general, our newly corrected data differed only slightly from that previously published, with very few qualitative changes in muscle moments (e.g., muscles originally identified as abductors remained abductors). As a result the majority of our previous conclusions regarding the functional evolution of key muscles in these archosaur groups are upheld.
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- Karl Bates
- Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, University of Liverpool , Liverpool , United Kingdom
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- Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College , London , United Kingdom
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge, LA , United States of America
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- Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum , London , United Kingdom
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Snoeck O, Beyer B, Feipel V, Salvia P, Sterckx JL, Rooze M, Van Sint Jan S. Tendon and fascial structure contributions to knee muscle excursions and knee joint displacement. Clin Biomech (Bristol, Avon) 2014; 29:1070-6. [PMID: 25168083 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2014.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2014] [Revised: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Semitendinosus and gracilis muscles whose tendons are used in surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament maintain their contractile ability, and a limited decrease of hamstring muscles force is observed postoperatively despite important changes. The goal was to quantify the influence of the myofascial structures on excursions and moment arms of knee muscles to attempt explaining the above-mentioned post-surgical observations. METHODS Hamstring harvesting procedures were performed by a senior orthopaedic surgeon on seven lower limbs from fresh-frozen specimens. Femoro-tibial kinematics and tendons excursion were simultaneously recorded at each steps of the surgery. FINDINGS No significant difference was demonstrated for excursions and moment arms after tenotomies and gracilis tendon harvesting (P≥0.05). The first significant semitendinosus excursion (P<1.17×10(-4)) and moment arm (P<6.88×10(-5)) decrease was observed after semitendinosus tendon harvesting (46% of the initial excursion). INTERPRETATION Gracilis and semitendinosus myofascial pathway is crucial for force transmission towards the knee joint.
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- O Snoeck
- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium.
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- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium; Laboratory of Functional Anatomy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium; Laboratory of Functional Anatomy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Functional Anatomy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium; Laboratory of Functional Anatomy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium; Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics and Organogenesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgium
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