Overuse Injury Assessment Model
Abstract
The aim of the present research is to equip our military leaders with knowledge and software tools which better assist them in the design of boot camp training regimens. More specifically, our research enhances of the state-of-the-art in bone overuse injury prediction. A significant part of our effort is geared towards the prediction and analysis of skeletal strain fields which result during a specific pattern of locomotion and for a given skeletal morphology. Once the intrinsic loads on the skeleton are known for various activities, it is possible to make educated inferences on how different training programs affect skeletal fatigue life, or in other words, the injury rate. First we researched and evaluated different approaches taken by others who have attempted to predict bone overuse injury rates before us. We then embarked on a multifaceted approach which utilizes biomechanics, inverse dynamics, static optimization, structural analysis, and statistical regression to determine skeletal fatigue, loads during locomotion. The present deliverable is a model which accepts experimental video and force plate data gathered from normal gait as inputs and then determines the strain fields which arise due to the observed locomotion in a realistic simulated femur.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA423332
Entities
People
- James H. Stuhmiller