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Virtual Animation of the Kinematics of the Human for Industrial, Educational and Research Purposes

Knee Joint


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Notes

    • This simulation shows the motion of the shank (tibial bone + fibula) within the femoro-tibial joint, i.e. the knee joint.
    • This simulation shows that the knee joint has dofs, which are dependent to each other.
      • For example, the full motion simulation shows realistic relationships between the bone segments.
      • On the other hand, the simulation of, for example, the abduction-adduction dof only shows bone collisions that are not physiological.
      • This means that knee dofs are closely related to each other.
    • The internal rotation of the shank associated to the full motion is also well visualized from that particular dataset when the model is observed from an anterior frontal view: the rotation of the tibial bone is particularly visible during the first quarter of the full motion.

  

 

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Last update: 4 February 2002