A Multi-segment Musculoskeletal Foot Model for Clinical Gait Analysis

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(Prabhav Saraswat, 27. October, 2009 )

Several full body musculoskeletal models have been developed for research applications and these models may potentially be developed into useful clinical tools to assess gait pathologies. Existing full-body musculoskeletal models treat the foot as a single segment and ignore the motions of the intrinsic joints of the foot. This assumption limits the use of such models in clinical cases with significant foot deformities. Therefore, a three-segment musculoskeletal model of the foot was developed in the AnyBody Modeling System to match the segmentation of a recently developed multi-segment kinematic foot model.

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