In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

[Ross Miller]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone knows of any other studies reporting knee joint contact forces from instrumented knee replacements in humans during running/jogging? There are numerous studies that have reported these data for walking, but I've only found one that has included data for running:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24465856 [Bergmann et al. (2014) in PLoS ONE]

If I parsed the Bergmann et al. (2014) averaging scheme correctly, the peak compressive load was about 4.1x bodyweight during treadmill jogging at 1.67 m/s.

Thanks!
Ross

[Adam Bunn]

Re: In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

Hi Ross,

Dr. Darryl D'Lima's group has done some similar work to Bergmann. Here's a link to their paper from 2008 outlining joint contact forces from instrumented knee replacements.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18563502

Thanks,
Adam

[Ross Miller]

Re: In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

Thanks very much Adam, I had not seen this one!

It looks like their peak loads (about 4.2 BW @ 1.39 m/s) were similar to Bergmann's (about 4.1 BW @ 1.67 m/s).

Ross

Hi Ross,

Dr. Darryl D'Lima's group has done some similar work to Bergmann. Here's a link to their paper from 2008 outlining joint contact forces from instrumented knee replacements.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18563502

Thanks,
Adam

[Ross Miller]

Re: In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

I put together this figure showing the peak axial (compressive) loads on the tibial plateau from different studies. The two symbols marked with "X" are the in vivo instrumented knee data. The other symbols with different shapes and shading are from 13 different studies that estimated the load using various musculoskeletal modeling methods.



Looks to be a general linear trend of increasing peak load with increasing speed, although the data at faster speeds are sparse, and there is quite a range between studies (e.g. 6-14x bodyweight at ~ 3.5 m/s). Error bars are standard deviations when they were available.

Ross

[Adam Bunn]

Re: In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

Hi Ross,

Just in case you haven't seen this, there is an ongoing challenge to predict in vivo knee contact forces. Here's the link:

https://simtk.org/frs/?group_id=413

Perhaps that could lend some help to your study.

Thanks,
Adam

[Ross Miller]

Re: In vivo knee loads during running/jogging

Hi Adam,

The data above are all for running/jogging, even the relatively slow speeds shown with the Xs. Last time I looked, the Grand Challenge datasets have not included running/jogging data, although I've not checked recently.

Ross