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1Biomechanics Laboratory, Faculty of Physical Education, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Abstract:
Isokinetic dynamometers have frequently been used to determine in vivo properties of human skeletal muscles. In these investigations the moments recorded by the dynamometer were often (implicitly) assumed to be the same as the joint moments produced by muscles. This assumption may have contributed to the conflicting results about in vivo muscle properties of human skeletal muscles that are reported in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to present a method for calculating the resultant joint moments from the moments recorded using a Cybex II dynamometer and to determine the differences between these two moments for some typical exercise conditions. The differences between these these moments are shown to be due to (a) gravitational effects, (b) inertial effects, and (c) non-rigidity of the Cybex arm/shank-foot system. The results obtained suggest that the moments recorded using the dynamometer should not be used to derive muscle properties without taking into account the relationship between the resultant joint moments and the moments measured using an isokinetic dynamometer.
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