Various Knee Model Measurement Techniques to Find the Knee Geometries

International Journal of Pharmacy and Biomedical Engineering

© 2016 by SSRG - IJPBE Journal

Volume 3 Issue 3

Year of Publication : 2016

Authors : C.Kavinaya and L.Ashuthoshkumar

10.14445/23942576/IJPBE-V3I3P102

How to Cite?

C.Kavinaya and L.Ashuthoshkumar, "Various Knee Model Measurement Techniques to Find the Knee Geometries," SSRG International Journal of Pharmacy and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 3,  no. 3, pp. 4-6, 2016. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942576/IJPBE-V3I3P102

Abstract:

Computation of knee modeling is a subjectspecific technique defining the zero-load measurements of the cruciate and indemnity ligaments. The dynamic knee simulator was used to test the three carcass knees. The carcass knees also experienced physical sachet of motion testing to discover their inactivesort of motion to regulate every muscle bundle's zero-load measurements. Compotation multibody knee representations were shaped for each knee, and classical kinematics were likened to investigational kinematics for a replicated walk series. Simple-minded non-linear mechanism inhibition elements were used to characterize cruciate and deposited particles in the knee representations' muscle packages. This learning originates that knee kinematics was enormously sensitive to changing of the zero-load measurement. The domino effects also recommend optimum methods for describing each of the muscle bundle zero-load measurements, irrespective of the subject. These consequences validate the significance of the zero-load length when modeling the knee united and verify that physical cloak of motion dimensions can be used to determine the passive range of motion of the knee joint. It is also supposed that the method defined here for responsible zero-load measurement can be used for in vitro or in vivo subject-specific computational models.

Keywords:

dynamic knee simulator, subjectspecific technique, knee modeling

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