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Clinical Gait Analysis and Musculoskeletal Modeling

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Gait analysis goal is to investigate the mechanics of the muscle, the relationships between muscles and bones and the motions of joints. However, for a deeper analysis of the internal force acting on the human body research has focused on multi-body modeling and simulation. The aim is to integrate the elements of the musculoskeletal system and the joint mechanics in order to better understand what has been learned through in vivo and in vitro experiments. This chapter presents a general overview of musculoskeletal modeling and simulation in the clinical gait area.

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This study was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF AZ: 01EZ0775). The authors like to thank TU Berlin and Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany for cooperation in TExoPro and EU Marie Curie Actions-Marie Curie Research Training Networks/ Multi-scale Biological Modalities for Physiological Human articulation 289897 (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN) for their funding

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Tecante, K. et al. (2014). Clinical Gait Analysis and Musculoskeletal Modeling. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N., Ratib, O., Choi, H. (eds) 3D Multiscale Physiological Human. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6275-9_7

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