Abstract
SpinalForce In biomechanics investigations, division normalisation is frequentlyused to eliminate the impact of anthropometric variations (such as body weight)on kinetic variables, permitting comparison across a population. In spinebiomechanics, the intervertebral load or body weight during a standing postureis frequently used to split the spinal forces. To normalise kinetic variables,such as ground reaction forces during walking and running, offset and powercurve normalisation have been recommended to be more appropriate than divisionnormalisation.
The SpinalForce current study looked into four methods for normalising spinalstresses to offset the impact of body weight for the first time. A thoroughOpenSim musculoskeletal model of the spine was used to calculate the spinalforces at all lumbar levels for 11 scaled models (50–100 kg) and 13 trunkflexion activities. The effectiveness of each normalisation procedure wasevaluated using Pearson correlations of the raw and normalised forces versusbody weight. Body weight normalisation and standing division normalisation wereonly able to successfully normalise L4L5 spinal forces in three tasks and L5S1loads in five and three tasks, respectively.
SpinalForce offset and power curve normalisation techniques were effective for alllumbar spine levels and tasks. Offset normalisation effectively eliminated theimpact of body weight while keeping the flexion angle's bearing on spinalforces. Thus, we advise offset normalisation to take anthropometric variationsinto account in spinal force experiments.
Introduction
Anthropometric factors have a significant impact on groundreaction forces (GRF), intersegmental forces, and other kinetic variables inbiomechanics investigations. To eliminate the impacts of participantanthropometric disparities acting as confounding factors, kinetic variables arefrequently standardised by anthropometric characteristics such as body weight(BW) and height (Derrick et al., 2020). For instance, non-dimensionalnormalisation has been suggested for normalising data in clinical gaitanalysis, where each variable is divided by combinations of body mass, leglength, and gravitational acceleration Although normalisation appears to be aharmless data analysis technique, it is important to take into account its impacts since normalisation mightalter how results are viewed. For instance,
in studies on the risk of anterior cruciate ligament injury,adjusting the knee abduction moment might have a considerable impact on howgroup comparisons are interpreted (Norcross et al., 2017). Determining the bestappropriate methodology for normalising each biomechanical variable is crucialsince different normalisation methods may have varied effects on the outcomesand findings of a study.
SpinalForce joint forces are of interest in many studies of spine biomechanicsbecause these loads significantly contribute to the aetiology of back, andheight are the four individual variables that have been proven to have thelargest impact on spinal burdens Therefore, previous studies have frequentlysimply divided the measured or estimated spinal forces by Spinal Force Favier et al., 2021; or divided the spinalforces by the intervertebral load during a neutral, unloaded, standing postureto eliminate the influence In the current investigation, these two divisionnormalisation methods—sometimes referred to as "ratio scaling" in theliterature—will be abbreviated BW Division Normalization (BWDN) and StandingDivision Normalization (SDN).
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