Abstract
The mechanical actions of individual muscles crossing the knee joint were studied in the frontal plane. Through electrical stimulation, individual knee muscles were selectively activated and the resulting three-dimensional torques at the joint were measured. The isometric experiment was repeated at neutral, 5° varus, 5° valgus positions in the frontal plane and full knee extension to examine the effect of varus/valgus alignment on the muscle actions. In all muscles studied, the varus and valgus malalignment caused the muscles to exert a considerably larger torque in the direction opposite to that of the malalignment.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Volume | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0780356756 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1999 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS) - Atlanta, GA, USA Duration: Oct 13 1999 → Oct 16 1999 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (1st Joint BMES / EMBS) |
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| City | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Period | 10/13/99 → 10/16/99 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics