Validazione sperimentale di modelli muscolo scheletrici di simulazione della flessoestensione isocinetica del ginocchio

Aim of the work was the experimental validation of muscle-skeletal models of lower limbs during isokinetic knee flexion-extensions at different angular speeds, using OpenSim 2.0.1 e AnyBody® 3.0 codes. The adopted approach was: (i) to record the kinematic, kinetic and EMG data on two healthy subjects, (ii) to implement the scaled numerical models of the two subjects, (iii) to simulate the isokinetic motions and (iv) to compare the numerical and experimental activation results in terms of peak, phase and area errors. Results showed a good agreement for extensor muscles, giving a encouraging confirmation about the possibility of using such codes for the evaluation of articular loads.