Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
Volume 47, Issue 13, Pages 3295-3302Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.08.016
Keywords
Musculoskeletal modeling; Computer simulation; Computed muscle control; Injury prevention; Knee loading
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Funding
- NHMRC [400937]
- National Science Foundation (CAREER) [1253317]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1253317] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Approximately 320,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in the United States each year are non-contact injuries, with many occurring during a single-leg jump landing. To reduce ACL injury risk, one option is to improve muscle strength and/or the activation of muscles crossing the knee under elevated external loading. This study's purpose was to characterize the relative force production of the muscles supporting the knee during the weight-acceptance (WA) phase of single-leg jump landing and investigate the gastrocnemii forces compared to the hamstrings forces. Amateur male Western Australian Rules Football players completed a single-leg jump landing protocol and six participants were randomly chosen for further modeling and simulation. A three-dimensional, 14-segment, 37 degree-of-freedom, 92 muscle-tendon actuated model was created for each participant in OpenSim. Computed muscle control was used to generate 12 muscle-driven simulations, 2 trials per participant, of the WA phase of single-leg jump landing. A one-way ANOVA and Tukey post-hoc analysis showed both the quadriceps and gastrocnemii muscle force estimates were significantly greater than the hamstrings (p < 0.001). Elevated gastrocnemii forces corresponded with increased joint compression and lower ACL forces. The elevated quadriceps and gastrocnemii forces during landing may represent a generalized muscle strategy to increase knee joint stiffness, protecting the knee and ACL from external knee loading and injury risk. These results contribute to our understanding of how muscle's function during single-leg jump landing and should serve as the foundation for novel muscle-targeted training intervention programs aimed to reduce ACL injuries in sport. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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