Title
Analysis Of Contribution Of Muscle Synergies On Sit-To-Stand Motion Using Musculoskeletal Model
Abstract
Recently, declining physical ability of elderly people has become an extremely important social issue. To improve their daily living activities, the standing-up motion is emphasized in this study as an important daily motion. Synergy analysis is applied to the standing-up motion to extract four important groups of muscle activations (synergies). Furthermore, the effect of synergies on body movement is calculated based on a musculoskeletal model of the human body. Results suggest that the first synergy works as preparation of the motion by pulling the ankle and flexing the hip. The second synergy controls the joint moment of the hip and knee joints to raise the hip and move the center of mass forward. The third synergy controls the ankle joint according to movement of the center of mass. The last synergy stabilizes the posture change from a seated to a standing position. Our findings imply that it is important to train those functional muscle activity to enhance the ability of standing-up motion.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
2013 IEEE WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED ROBOTICS AND ITS SOCIAL IMPACTS (ARSO)
muscle,geriatrics,biomechanics
Field
DocType
ISSN
Muscle activity,Sit to stand,Activities of daily living,Simulation,Computer science,Biomechanics,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Geriatrics,Human body,Ankle
Conference
2162-7568
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi An11915.48
Yuki Ishikawa23412.21
Junki Nakagawa374.37
Hiroyuki Oka494.60
Hiroshi Yamakawa534.58
Atsushi Yamashita693.82
Hajime Asama7826237.10