Musculoskeletal models of a human and bonobo finger: parameter identification and comparison to in vitro experiments.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Knowledge of internal finger loading during human and non-human primate activities such as tool use or knuckle-walking has become increasingly important to reconstruct the behaviour of fossil hominins based on bone morphology. Musculoskeletal models have proven useful for predicting these internal loads during human activities, but load predictions for non-human primate activities are missing due to a lack of suitable finger models. The main goal of this study was to implement both a human and a representative non-human primate finger model to facilitate comparative studies on metacarpal bone loading. To ensure that the model predictions are sufficiently accurate, the specific goals were: (1) to identify species-specific model parameters based on in vitro measured fing

SUBMITTER: Synek A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690335 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature