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Evaluation of spinal force normalization techniques.

Mohammadhossein Akhavanfar¹, Thomas K Uchida², Ryan B Graham¹

¹School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.

Journal of Biomechanics

|January 21, 2023

Summary

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Offset normalization effectively removes body weight effects on spinal forces, unlike division methods. This technique is recommended for accurate biomechanics research across all spine levels and tasks.

Keywords:

Intervertebral Load Musculoskeletal Modelling Normalization Spinal Force Spine

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Area of Science:

Biomechanics
Spine Biomechanics
Musculoskeletal Modeling

Background:

Division normalization is common in biomechanics to account for anthropometric differences, but its effectiveness for spinal forces is debated.
Existing research suggests offset and power curve normalization may be superior to division normalization for kinetic variables.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effectiveness of four normalization techniques for removing body weight effects on spinal forces.
To compare division, offset, and power curve normalization methods in lumbar spine biomechanics.

Main Methods:

Spinal forces were estimated using an OpenSim musculoskeletal model for 11 scaled models (50-100 kg).
Thirteen trunk flexion tasks were simulated.
Pearson correlations assessed the effectiveness of normalization techniques against body weight.

Main Results:

Body weight and standing division normalization were only partially effective, failing across all lumbar levels and tasks.
Offset and power curve normalization techniques successfully normalized spinal forces across all lumbar levels and tasks.
Offset normalization effectively removed body weight influence while preserving the effect of trunk flexion angle.

Conclusions:

Offset normalization is recommended for accounting for anthropometric differences in spinal force studies.
This method provides a more robust approach than division normalization for analyzing spinal biomechanics.