Futurity July 20, 2022
Researchers have created a “digital human” that shows how to reduce force on the knee by teaching people to use different muscles as they walk.
Using results from the digital human, a detailed computer simulation, participants in a small study were able to reduce the load on their knees by an average of 12%, a benefit equivalent to a person losing about 20% of their total body weight. The lighter load may alleviate pain from osteoarthritis or prevent joint injuries.
“We now have sufficiently realistic mathematical and computational models of human movement that we can change how the brain excites muscles in a simulation, and see how that affects joint loads,” says Scott Delp, professor of bioengineering at Stanford University,...
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