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JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH
Volume 35, Issue 10, Pages 2164-2173Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jor.23524
Keywords
subject-specific; musculoskeletal model; spine curvature; trunk muscle morphology; vertebral loading
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- National Institutes of Health [R01AR053986, F31AG041629, K99AG042458]
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Framingham Heart Study (NIH/NHLBI) [N01-HC-25195]
- National Space Biomedical Research Institute through NASA [NCC 9-58, NNX16AC15G S01]
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We created subject-specific musculoskeletal models of the thoracolumbar spine by incorporating spine curvature and muscle morphology measurements from computed tomography (CT) scans to determine the degree to which vertebral compressive and shear loading estimates are sensitive to variations in trunk anatomy. We measured spine curvature and trunk muscle morphology using spine CT scans of 125 men, and then created four different thoracolumbar spine models for each person: (i) height and weight adjusted (Ht/Wt models); (ii) height, weight, and spine curvature adjusted (+C models); (iii) height, weight, and muscle morphology adjusted (+M models); and (iv) height, weight, spine curvature, and muscle morphology adjusted (+CM models). We determined vertebral compressive and shear loading at three regions of the spine (T8, T12, and L3) for four different activities. Vertebral compressive loads predicted by the subject-specific CT-based musculoskeletal models were between 54% lower to 45% higher from those estimated using musculoskeletal models adjusted only for subject height and weight. The impact of subject-specific information on vertebral loading estimates varied with the activity and spinal region. Vertebral loading estimates were more sensitive to incorporation of subject-specific spinal curvature than subject-specific muscle morphology. Our results indicate that individual variations in spine curvature and trunk muscle morphology can have a major impact on estimated vertebral compressive and shear loads, and thus should be accounted for when estimating subject-specific vertebral loading. (C) 2017 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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