Multidirectional basketball activities load different regions of the tibia: A subject-specific muscle-driven finite element study.

ABSTRACT: The tibia is a common site for bone stress injuries, which are believed to develop from microdamage accumulation to repetitive sub-yield strains. There is a need to understand how the tibia is loaded in vivo to understand how bone stress injuries develop and design exercises to build a more robust bone. Here, we use subject-specific, muscle-driven, finite element simulations of 11 basketball players to calculate strain and strain rate distributions at the midshaft and distal tibia during six activities: walking, sprinting, lateral cut, jumping after landing, changing direction from forward-to-backward sprinting, and changing direction while side shuffling. Maximum compressive strains were at least double maximum tensile strains during the stance phase of all activities. Sprinting and later

SUBMITTER: Yan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10201946 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature