Knee joint forces: Prediction, measurement, and significance

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-102

  D'Lima, Darryl D ^a   Fregly, Benjamin J ^b   Patil, Shantanu ^a   Steklov, Nikolai ^a   Colwell, Clifford W ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Arthroplasty; In vivo; Knee forces; Modelling

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); ORTHOPEDICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; ARTHROPLASTY; MODELS;

ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPLASTIES; FORCE PREDICTIONS; IN-VIVO; JOINT FORCES; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE FORCE; KNEE JOINT; KNEE KINEMATICS; MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; FORCE DISTRIBUTIONS; FORWARD DYNAMIC; INVERSE DYNAMICS; KNEE FORCES;

ARTHROPLASTY; JOINTS (ANATOMY);

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; KNEE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84858167677     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: 20413033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954411911433372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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