A three-dimensional musculoskeletal model for gait analysis:​ anatomical variability estimates

White, Scott C.; Yack, H. John; Winter, David A.

Affiliations

¹Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

²*Current address: Department of Physical Education and Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

³Current address: Department of Physical Therapy/Exercise Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

Abstract

Three-dimensional coordinates defining the origin and insertion of 40 muscle units, and bony landmarks for osteometric scaling were identified on dry bone specimens. Interspecimen coordinate differences along the anterior-posterior axis of the pelvis and the long bone axes of the pelvis, femur and leg were reduced by scaling but landmark differences along the other axes were not.

The coordinates were mapped to living subjects using close-range photogrammetry to locate superficial reference markers. The error of predicting the positions of internal coordinates was assessed by comparing joint centre locations calculated from local axes defining the orientation of segments superior and inferior to a joint. A difference was attributed to: anatomical variability not accounted for by scaling; errors in identifying and placing reference landmarks; the accuracy of locating markers using photogrammetry and error introduced by marker oscillation during movement. Anatomical differences between specimens are one source of error in defining a musculoskeletal model but larger errors are introduced when such models are mapped to living subjects.

Links

DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(89)90072-9

PubMed: 2613724

WoS: A1989CH07400014

History

Revised: 1988-10-28

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