Sports Biomechanics of skeletal muscles with finite element simulations

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560351
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Hyogo University of Teacher Education
• Principal Investigator: Oda Toshiaki 兵庫教育大学, 学校教育研究科, 准教授 (10435638)
• Research Collaborator: TAKAGI Shuu 東京大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 教授 ; YAMAMURA Naoto 東京大学, 大学院・工学研究科, 研究員 ; Sinha Shantanu University of California, Department of Radiology, Professor
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 筋機能 / シミュレーション / 腱膜 / 結合組織 / 有限要素法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In experimental study design, one intervention like training experiment would not influence only one parameter. Because there exist interactions of adaptation between tissues (e.g. interaction between muscle and tendon). The aim of this study was to investigate relations between both force and power generations and physiological, mechanical and anatomical characteristics in muscles and tendons using finite element analyses of muscle-tendon complex. Also, the contribution of each parameter was estimated by simulation with changing (increase and decrease) the values in physiological range. As a results in this work, we could get the systems to determine the sensitivity of each parameter, such as the importance of stiffness of tendinous tissues on force-power generation.

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