Media Keperawatan Indonesia, 2023 Osteoarthritis is the most common disease of arthritis which is defined as chronic inflammation of the joints due to damage to the cartilage. The global prevalence of knee osteoarthritis is 3.8% and 0.85% of hip osteoarthritis.
Faradisa Yuanita Fahmi +2 more
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Effect of stretching on hamstring muscle compliance
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 2009 To evaluate the effects of stretching on hamstring muscle compliance indirectly and directly.Twelve healthy men were instructed to perform passive stretching of one leg daily over 4 weeks, while the other leg served as a control. An instrumental straight leg raise was used to measure stretching force and muscle compliance indirectly with surface ...
Arja Häkkinen +5 more
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Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Human Muscle For Development of Human Gait Analyzer Application [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Despite the fact that only a small portion of muscles are affected in motion disease and disorders, medical therapies do not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy muscles. In this paper, a method is devised in order to calculate the neural stimuli of the lower body during gait cycle and check if any group of muscles are not acting properly.
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Relationships among hamstring muscle optimal length and hamstring flexibility and strength
Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2017 Hamstring muscle strain injury (hamstring injury) due to excessive muscle strain is one of the most common injuries in sports. The relationships among hamstring muscle optimal lengths and hamstring flexibility and strength were unknown, which limited our understanding of risk factors for hamstring injury.
Bing Yu +4 more
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Towards an efficient inverse static model of a Festo actuator made of two antagonist muscles for hybrid control of its position and stiffness [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The Festo air muscle is today one of the most known commercial version of the so-called McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle. A major advantage of handmade McKibben muscles, as well as its commercial versions, lies in the possibility it offers of realizing antagonist muscle actuator on the model of the biceps-triceps system.
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Predictive modelling of training loads and injury in Australian football [PDF]
, 2017 To investigate whether training load monitoring data could be used to predict injuries in elite Australian football players, data were collected from elite athletes over 3 seasons at an Australian football club. Loads were quantified using GPS devices, accelerometers and player perceived exertion ratings.
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Precise Few-shot Fat-free Thigh Muscle Segmentation in T1-weighted MRI [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Precise thigh muscle volumes are crucial to monitor the motor functionality of patients with diseases that may result in various degrees of thigh muscle loss. T1-weighted MRI is the default surrogate to obtain thigh muscle masks due to its contrast between muscle and fat signals.
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An Euler-Bernoulli-Type Beam Model of the Vocal Folds for Describing Curved and Incomplete Glottal Closure Patterns [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Incomplete glottal closure is a laryngeal configuration wherein the glottis is not fully obstructed prior to phonation. In this work, we introduce an Euler-Bernoulli composite beam vocal fold (VF) model that produces qualitatively similar incomplete glottal closure patterns as those observed in experimental and high-fidelity numerical studies, thus ...
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Regional difference in the EMG-force relationship of the hamstring muscles during knee flexion
Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2021 The relationship between electromyographic (EMG) amplitude and exerted force has been established in numerous studies and used as fundamental knowledge to interpret the results of EMG in human movement.
Raki Kawama +2 more
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Investigating the Correlation between Force Output, Strains, and Pressure for Active Skeletal Muscle Contractions [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Experimental observations suggest that the force output of the skeletal muscle tissue can be correlated to the intra-muscular pressure generated by the muscle belly. However, pressure often proves difficult to measure through in-vivo tests. Simulations on the other hand, offer a tool to model muscle contractions and analyze the relationship between ...
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