A framework based on subject-specific musculoskeletal models and Monte Carlo simulations to personalize muscle coordination retraining.

ABSTRACT: Excessive loads at lower limb joints can lead to pain and degenerative diseases. Altering joint loads with muscle coordination retraining might help to treat or prevent clinical symptoms in a non-invasive way. Knowing how much muscle coordination retraining can reduce joint loads and which muscles have the biggest impact on joint loads is crucial for personalized gait retraining. We introduced a simulation framework to quantify the potential of muscle coordination retraining to reduce joint loads for an individuum. Furthermore, the proposed framework enables to pinpoint muscles, which alterations have the highest likelihood to reduce joint loads. Simulations were performed based on three-dimensional motion capture data of five healthy adolescents (femoral torsion 10°-29°, tibial torsion 19

SUBMITTER: Kainz H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10861532 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature