Contact areas in the human knee

[Steven Abbott]

Hello All,

Hoping for a little help,

I'm currently focussing on some Neuromuscular research, and would find a list of contact areas (patellofemoral and tibial femoral) for the knee joint in mm2 by degree of flexion / extension exceptionally useful. I don't have the resources to create my own table, and the literature seemed a little sparse, though some things did pop up in my search, usually focussing on a few degree points (0, 30, 60) for example, rather than the full range that I need, (-4 to 130 roughly covers my data range). There was a useful list of references posted to this forum back in 1994 which I found through the forum search function, but obviously would like something more recent.

In an ideal world I'm hoping someone may have an excel sheet that they worked out in the past, either through measurement, or modelling in FEA that they would be willing to share. Alternately if anyone can point me at an open source table that would also be really useful.

With kind regards

Dr Steve Abbott
Sports & Exercise Science Research Group
Anglia Ruskin University

[Bhushan Borotikar]

Re: Contact areas in the human knee

Hello Steve,

I would like to redirect you to my recent work on in vivo patellofemoral contact areas during knee extension. This is a combined approach using dynamic MRI data with computational modeling to extract contact data. If you want more details, I can be of help at anytime.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24012620

Sorry for replying late and I hope you are still interested in these results.

Thanks,
Bhushan

Bhushan S. Borotikar, D. Eng.
Research Scientist,
University Mines Telecom And LaTIM,
Brest, France

Hello All,

Hoping for a little help,

I'm currently focussing on some Neuromuscular research, and would find a list of contact areas (patellofemoral and tibial femoral) for the knee joint in mm2 by degree of flexion / extension exceptionally useful. I don't have the resources to create my own table, and the literature seemed a little sparse, though some things did pop up in my search, usually focussing on a few degree points (0, 30, 60) for example, rather than the full range that I need, (-4 to 130 roughly covers my data range). There was a useful list of references posted to this forum back in 1994 which I found through the forum search function, but obviously would like something more recent.

In an ideal world I'm hoping someone may have an excel sheet that they worked out in the past, either through measurement, or modelling in FEA that they would be willing to share. Alternately if anyone can point me at an open source table that would also be really useful.

With kind regards

Dr Steve Abbott


Sports & Exercise Science Research Group
Anglia Ruskin University