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Skeletal muscle force output strongly correlates with principal and volumetric strains, offering a way to estimate muscle group contributions. Intramuscular pressure showed weaker correlations due to stress relaxation effects.

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  • Computational Biology
  • Muscle Physiology

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  • Experimental data suggests a link between skeletal muscle force and intramuscular pressure.
  • Directly measuring intramuscular pressure in vivo is challenging.
  • Computational modeling offers a viable approach to study muscle contraction dynamics.

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  • Experimentally measurable principal and volumetric strains can be used to estimate the force contribution of different muscle groups.
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  • Stress relaxation near the muscle boundary impacts the pressure-force relationship.