The evaluation of in vivo muscle-tendon loads is fundamental to understanding the actuation of normal and pathological human walking. However, conventional techniques for measuring muscle-tendon loads in the human body are too invasive for use in gait analysis. Here, we demonstrate the use of noninvasive measures of shear wave propagation as a proxy for Achilles tendon loading during walking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMuscles are the actuators that drive human movement. However, despite many decades of work, we still cannot readily assess the forces that muscles transmit during human movement. Direct measurements of muscle-tendon loads are invasive and modeling approaches require many assumptions.
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