Modeling skeletal muscle stress and intramuscular pressure: A whole muscle active-passive approach
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2018
Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
Abstract
Clinical treatments of skeletal muscle weakness are hindered by a lack of an approach to evaluate individual muscle force. Intramuscular pressure (IMP) has shown a correlation to muscle force in vivo, but patient to patient and muscle to muscle variability results in difficulty of utilizing IMP to estimate muscle force. The goal of this work was to develop a finite element model of whole skeletal muscle that can predict IMP under passive and active conditions to further investigate the mechanisms of IMP variability. A previously validated hypervisco-poroelastic constitutive approach was modified to incorporate muscle activation through an inhomogeneous geometry. Model parameters were optimized to fit model stress to experimental data, and the resulting model fluid pressurization data were utilized for validation. Model fitting was excellent (root-mean-square error or RMSE
Publication Title
Journal of biomechanical engineering
Recommended Citation
Wheatley, B.,
Odegard, G. M.,
Kaufman, K.,
&
Haut Donahue, T.
(2018).
Modeling skeletal muscle stress and intramuscular pressure: A whole muscle active-passive approach.
Journal of biomechanical engineering,
140(8).
http://doi.org/10.1115/1.4040318
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