Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Modeling of skeletal muscle: the influence of tendon and aponeuroses compliance on the force-length relationship. |
| Authors: |
Lemos RR (AUTHOR), Epstein M (AUTHOR), Herzog W (AUTHOR), Lemos, R R1 (AUTHOR), Epstein, M (AUTHOR), Herzog, W (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing. Jan2008, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p23-32. 10p. |
| Abstract: |
The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of changing elastic properties of tendon and aponeuroses on force production and muscle geometry. A three-dimensional, structural, continuum mechanics model of the cat medial gastrocnemius was used for this purpose. Increasing compliance in tendon and aponeuroses caused a decrease in the peak isometric force and a shift of the force-length relationship to the right of the length axis (i.e. toward greater muscle lengths). This result can be explained with the stability condition of the force-length relationship which produced a history dependence of force production that is conceptually in agreement with experimental observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Engineering Source |
