0000000000379759
AUTHOR
R. Al Nazer
Comments on the article titled ‘Component mode synthesis approach to estimate tibial strains in gait’,Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, 33, pp. 488–495, 2009
In a recent article published in the Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology, Gaofeng et al. [1] claimed that they were the first to propose the flexible multibody simulation approach (i.e. flo...
Flexible multibody simulation approach in the analysis of tibial strain during walking.
Strains within the bone tissue play a major role in bone (re)modeling. These small strains can be assessed using experimental strain gage measurements, which are challenging and invasive. Further, the strain measurements are, in practise, limited to certain regions of superficial bones only, such as the anterior surface of the tibia. In this study, tibial strains occurring during walking were estimated using a numerical approach based on flexible multibody dynamics. In the introduced approach, a lower body musculoskeletal model was developed by employing motion capture data obtained from walking at a constant velocity. The motion capture data were used in inverse dynamics simulation to teac…
A full body musculoskeletal model based on flexible multibody simulation approach utilised in bone strain analysis during human locomotion
Load-induced strains applied to bone can stimulate its development and adaptation. In order to quantify the incident strains within the skeleton, in vivo implementation of strain gauges on the surfaces of bone is typically used. However, in vivo strain measurements require invasive methodology that is challenging and limited to certain regions of superficial bones only such as the anterior surface of the tibia. Based on our previous study [Al Nazer et al. (2008) J Biomech. 41:1036-1043], an alternative numerical approach to analyse in vivo strains based on the flexible multibody simulation approach was proposed. The purpose of this study was to extend the idea of using the flexible multibod…