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Musculoskeletal modeling of the spine: Effect of subject-specific mass distribution parameters on segmental loading during various functional activities
The project aims at developing a marker-based approach for identifying subject-specific segmental mass distribution parameters of the trunk and to investigate its effect on musculoskeletal simulations of spinal loading during various functional activities.
Musculoskeletal (MSK) modeling is a valuable tool to non-invasively investigate the relationship between body motion and internal biomechanical loads in a wide range of physiological and pathological conditions. However, MSK modeling is only accurate if the models are based on subject-specific information such as individual segmental mass distribution. Unfortunately, currently available MSK spine modeling approaches implemented by the open-source modeling platform OpenSim do not yet account for this parameter, despite its direct effect on the calculation of muscular response using static optimization.
We therefore invite applications for master students to conduct a thesis research project in the context of a collaborative project between the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH). Supervised mainly by PD Dr. Stefan Schmid, the head of the Spinal Movement Biomechanics Group at BFH, and PD Dr. Michael L. Meier, the project leader at UZH’s Integrative Spinal Research (ISR) group, the master student would join the ISR research team to conduct a master-level research project, leading to a master thesis dissertation and hopefully to a peer-reviewed journal publication.
Musculoskeletal (MSK) modeling is a valuable tool to non-invasively investigate the relationship between body motion and internal biomechanical loads in a wide range of physiological and pathological conditions. However, MSK modeling is only accurate if the models are based on subject-specific information such as individual segmental mass distribution. Unfortunately, currently available MSK spine modeling approaches implemented by the open-source modeling platform OpenSim do not yet account for this parameter, despite its direct effect on the calculation of muscular response using static optimization.
We therefore invite applications for master students to conduct a thesis research project in the context of a collaborative project between the University of Zurich (UZH) and the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH). Supervised mainly by PD Dr. Stefan Schmid, the head of the Spinal Movement Biomechanics Group at BFH, and PD Dr. Michael L. Meier, the project leader at UZH’s Integrative Spinal Research (ISR) group, the master student would join the ISR research team to conduct a master-level research project, leading to a master thesis dissertation and hopefully to a peer-reviewed journal publication.
To investigate the effect of subject-specific mass distribution parameters on segmental loading of the spine during various functional activities.
To investigate the effect of subject-specific mass distribution parameters on segmental loading of the spine during various functional activities.
PD Dr. Stefan Schmid (stefan.schmid@bfh.ch)
PD Dr. Michael L. Meier (michael.meier@balgrist.ch)
PD Dr. Stefan Schmid (stefan.schmid@bfh.ch) PD Dr. Michael L. Meier (michael.meier@balgrist.ch)