This work strives to overcome the current challenges preventing the efficient development of surgical models and questions the conventional research approach that requires extensive experimental studies before using surgical simulations to examine questions of clinical interest. Notably, we develop models of two wrist surgeries based on the extremely limited quantitative data available in the literature. We then use these models to predict how surgery influences muscle moment arms. To evaluate the validity of our simulation-based prediction of moment arms, we experimentally measured moment arms in cadaveric specimens. Details on the modeling assumptions, simulations to predict moment arms, and experimental moment arm study are described in the cited publication.

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Please refer to the Downloads page for our release of (1) PRC models based on limited data, (2) SE4CF models based on limited data, and (3) experimental moment arm data of the nonimpaired and surgically salvaged wrist. All currently available models were developed in SIMM. In the near future, we will release dynamic wrist models of the nonimpaired and surgically salvaged wrist in OpenSim.