Exposure to internal muscle tissue loads under the ischial tuberosities during sitting is elevated at abnormally high or low body mass indices

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 280-286

  Sopher, Ran ^a   Nixon, Jane ^b   Gorecki, Claudia ^b   Gefen, Amit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Deep tissue injury; Finite element model; Pressure ulcer; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL MODEL; BODY MASS INDEX; COMPRESSION STRAIN; COMPRESSION STRESS; CRITICAL LEVEL; CRITICAL LOADING; DEEP TISSUE INJURY; FAT TISSUE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; INTERNAL TISSUES; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; MUSCLE TISSUES; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; NON-LINEAR; PRESSURE ULCERS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; VON MISES STRESS;

BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PATIENT REHABILITATION; SKIN; TENSORS;

MUSCLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BUTTOCK; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE; TISSUE INJURY; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; BUTTOCKS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISCHIUM; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; POSTURE; PRESSURE ULCER; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VISCOSITY; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 72249113639     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.021     Document Type: Article

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