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Biomechanics of Muscles

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Biomechanics of Normal and Pathological Human Articulating Joints

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The skeletal muscles are the source of power for the mechanical peripherals of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and they play a major role in relating a person to the world around him. Our understanding of the mechanisms through which the central control of the skeletal muscles makes possible the highly coordinated movements performed by the human being still is very limited. In this chapter this problem is approached by considering the skeletal muscles as being constituted by parallel and/or series combinations of basic one-degree-of-freedom neuromuscular assemblages, mechanoeffector units, whose structure is defined. The mechanical properties of a muscle are thus determined by those of its constituent units as well as by the way they are combined in it. The laws of combination of the mechanoeffector units are such that the whole muscle has the same formal structure, albeit with different component values, as a single mechanoeffector unit. This fact is taken advantage of to check the performance of a theoretical model against published data. This discussion is confined to the dynamical response to small perturbations around a quiescent working point so that linear approximations to the functional relationships which define the mechanoeffector unit may be used.

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  1. Department of Physiology, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal

    K. M. C. Da Silva

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  1. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Necip Berme

  2. Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Ali E. Engin

  3. Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal

    Kelo M. Correia da Silva

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Da Silva, K.M.C. (1985). Biomechanics of Muscles. In: Berme, N., Engin, A.E., Correia da Silva, K.M. (eds) Biomechanics of Normal and Pathological Human Articulating Joints. NATO ASI Series, vol 93. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5117-4_12

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