Accompanying dataset for our manuscript, "How peak knee loads are affected by changing the mass of lower-limb body segments during walking," for PLOS Computational Biology (in review).
In this study, healthy adults (N = 10) walked on a treadmill while varying amounts of mass were added to to the thigh, shank, and foot. Kinematics, kinetics, and muscle activity were recorded. We developed EMG-informed simulations in OpenSim Moco to estimate tibiofemoral knee contact force. These simulations enforced experimental kinematics while minimizing a combination of net joint moment errors and mismatch between measured and estimated muscle activity. This project contains all simulation results along with processed marker trajectories, electromyography signals, ground reaction forces, and a scaled full-body anatomical model for each participant. We also provide sample Matlab code for our EMG-informed simulation approach.
The manuscript using these data and simulations is currently in review at PLOS Computational Biology:
Miller, D.E., Brown, A.E., Bianco, N.A., Bhise, R., Delp, S.L., & Collins, S.H. How peak knee loads are affected by changing the mass of lower-limb body segments during walking.
