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Functional Musculoskeletal Anatomy

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This chapter describes how engineering principles can be used to estimate joint forces. Principles of static and dynamic analysis are reviewed, with examples of static analysis applied to the hip and elbow joints and to the analysis of joint forces in human ancestors. Applications to indeterminant problems of joint mechanics are presented and utilized to analyze equine fetlock joints.

…mechanical science is of all the noblest and most useful, seeing that by means of this all animate bodies which have movement perform all their actions…

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519)

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For the definition of these and other anatomical terms, see a human gross anatomy text, e.g., Grant’s (Agur 1991) or Gray’s (Williams 1995).

  2. 2.

    In this chapter, vector quantities are represented in bold type and scalars (such as vector magnitudes) in ordinary type.

  3. 3.

    P1 is also called the pastern bone. The name apparently comes from the fact that to pasture a horse without benefit of fences, ranchers would hobble it with a short rope connecting the P1 bones.

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  1. Orthopaedic Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Olga, WA, USA

    R. Bruce Martin

  2. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    David B. Burr

  3. Kinesiology, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Neil A. Sharkey

  4. Orthopaedic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

    David P. Fyhrie

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Martin, R.B., Burr, D.B., Sharkey, N.A., Fyhrie, D.P. (2015). Functional Musculoskeletal Anatomy. In: Skeletal Tissue Mechanics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3002-9_1

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