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JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
卷 39, 期 5, 页码 791-798出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2005.02.006
关键词
knee joint loading; contact forces; kinematics; sheep gait
Although the sheep has become a standard model for understanding the mechanical conditions that occur after injury and investigating surgical treatments such as osteochondral defect healing and ligament reconstruction, no study has yet evaluated the contact forces that occur in the sheep tibio-femoral joint in vivo. In this study, bone pins, together with reflective markers, were used to measure the 3D kinematics of three sheep hind limbs, simultaneously with the ground reaction forces during repetitions of gait trials. Joint contact forces were then calculated using inverse dynamics and optimisation techniques. Whilst average peak axial tibio-femoral contact forces of 2.1 body weight (BW) were calculated across the 3 sheep, only small medio-lateral and antero-posterior shear forces, averaging 0.7 BW, were determined. Average knee flexion angles ranging from 49 degrees to 70 degrees were observed. From the forces determined in this study, we have provided a better understanding of the mechanical loading environment that occurs in sheep. This has important implications for the interpretation of knee studies in quadrupeds and their relevance to the clinical situation. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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