TY - JOUR
T1 - A state-of-the-art integrative approach to studying neck biomechanics in vivo
AU - Zhou, Yu
AU - Chowdhury, Suman
AU - Reddy, Curran
AU - Wan, Bocheng
AU - Byrne, Ryan
AU - Yin, Wei
AU - Zhang, Xudong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Science China Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - Neck injuries are significant causes of morbidity and mortality, and their chronic forms due to repetitive or sustained physical acts (e.g., prolonged use of mobile phone with a dropped head) are becoming increasingly more prevalent. Many injuries are preventable but the prevention and control requires a clear basic understanding of the neck biomechanics. In this paper, we describe a first-of-its-kind study that integrates a gamut of state-of-the-art imaging modalities (dynamic radiography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)) and biodynamic measurements (motion capture, electromyography (EMG), force sensing), thereby investigating holistically the in vivo responses of the neck and its various interconnected musculoskeletal components during functional activities. We present a sample of findings to illustrate how the integrations at multiple levels can enable creating truly subject-specific neck musculoskeletal models and attaining novel insights that otherwise would be unattainable by a singular or subset of approaches.
AB - Neck injuries are significant causes of morbidity and mortality, and their chronic forms due to repetitive or sustained physical acts (e.g., prolonged use of mobile phone with a dropped head) are becoming increasingly more prevalent. Many injuries are preventable but the prevention and control requires a clear basic understanding of the neck biomechanics. In this paper, we describe a first-of-its-kind study that integrates a gamut of state-of-the-art imaging modalities (dynamic radiography, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)) and biodynamic measurements (motion capture, electromyography (EMG), force sensing), thereby investigating holistically the in vivo responses of the neck and its various interconnected musculoskeletal components during functional activities. We present a sample of findings to illustrate how the integrations at multiple levels can enable creating truly subject-specific neck musculoskeletal models and attaining novel insights that otherwise would be unattainable by a singular or subset of approaches.
KW - in vivo
KW - integration
KW - neck biomechanics
KW - neck injury
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086512779&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11431-020-1672-x
DO - 10.1007/s11431-020-1672-x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086512779
VL - 63
SP - 1235
EP - 1246
JO - Science China Technological Sciences
JF - Science China Technological Sciences
SN - 1674-7321
IS - 7
ER -