Evaluation of muscle strain injury severity in active human body models.

Autor: Nölle LV; Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Electronic address: lennart.noelle@imsb.uni-stuttgart.de., Mishra A; Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, Bangalore, India., Martynenko OV; Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany., Schmitt S; Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials [J Mech Behav Biomed Mater] 2022 Nov; Vol. 135, pp. 105463. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 14.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105463
Abstrakt: Even though significant efforts in the field of injury detection with finite element active human body models (FE AHBMs) have been made, injuries of the muscle-tendon unit (MTU) have not yet been taken into consideration. Therefore, the goal of this study was to define a muscle strain injury criterion (MSIC) to evaluate the damage sustained by the musculature during muscle driven movement scenarios. The MSIC was derived from biomechanical tests found in the literature and the proposed threshold values were substantiated through a comparison to an estimate of the ultimate tensile strength of human skeletal muscle and the forces acting on the biceps femoris long head muscle during one sprinting gait cycle. The application of the MSIC to state-of-the-art FE AHBMs was demonstrated by evaluating the strain injury severity of selected neck muscles of a full-body AHBM during two seat rotation load cases. The results of the MSIC substantiation suggest that all three injury threshold values proposed in this work fall in a plausible corridor of forces acting on the MTU. The combined results of the AHBM simulations indicate that neither of the two examined seat rotations are likely to cause strain injury to the neck muscles and that the proposed MSIC can easily be applied to current AHBMs without further modification of the model architecture or the muscle parameters. The MSIC was also used to formulate a hypothesis on the aetiology of muscle strain injuries, through which it was demonstrated that material inhomogeneities in the MTU might be the cause for strain injuries sustained during otherwise physiological movements. This work is a first step in the direction of the definition of a wholistic injury criterion for the human skeletal muscle fibre.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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