TENDON SLACK LENGTH AND ITS EFFECT ON MUSCLE FORCE-GENERATION CHARACTERISTICS

초록

Based on the force transfer relationship from muscle to tendon, a chart determining a normalized tendon force is developed. A sensitivity analysis verifies that the tendon slack length is the most critical parameter affecting the tendon force. Therefore, it may be claimed that the variation of this parameter from Delp's reference data will noticeably change the musculotendon characteristics of a subject. The effect of tendon slack length change on this characteristic was analyzed theoretically and checked by numerical results. An optimization algorithm was introduced, which searches the tendon slack lengths of quadriceps by minimizing the differences of calculated knee extension moment from experimental data.

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