ArticleJournal of biomechanics2017
Connecting the wrist to the hand: A simulation study exploring changes in thumb-tip endpoint force following wrist surgery.
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- A hand biomechanics dataset of kinematics, kinetics, electromyography, and imaging in healthy adults.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Transfer Learning With Simulated and Recorded Data Improves Predictions of Lateral Pinch Thumb-Tip Forces.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026Article
- Benchmarking Neural Network Personalized Musculoskeletal Hand Models Against Current Personalization Standards Using Experimental Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fine-Wire Electromyography.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2026Article
- A hand biomechanics dataset of kinematics, kinetics, electromyography, and imaging in healthy adults.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Multiple, not single, recipient muscle tendon transfers produce well-coordinated thumb-tip movement in lateral pinch grasp: a simulation study with application to restoration of improved grasp after tetraplegia.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Surrogate Simulation of Subject-Specific Lateral Pinch via Deep Learning.Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference · 2024Article
- Explainable AI Elucidates Musculoskeletal Biomechanics: A Case Study Using Wrist Surgeries.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Sensitivity Analysis of Upper Limb Musculoskeletal Models During Isometric and Isokinetic Tasks.Journal of biomechanical engineering · 2024Article
- An Efficient Framework for Personalizing EMG-Driven Musculoskeletal Models Based on Reinforcement Learning.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2024Article
- Predictions of thumb, hand, and arm muscle parameters derived using force measurements of varying complexity and neural networks.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
- Inverse distance weighting to rapidly generate large simulation datasets.Journal of biomechanics · 2023Article
- A Musculoskeletal Model of the Hand and Wrist Capable of Simulating Functional Tasks.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2023Article
- Corrigendum to "Bridging the gap between cadaveric and in vivo experiments: A biomechanical model evaluating thumb-tip endpoint forces" [J. Biomech. 46(5) (2013) 1014-1020].Journal of biomechanics · 2022Article
- Musculoskeletal Modeling of the Wrist via a Multi Body Simulation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Anthropometric scaling of musculoskeletal models of the hand captures age-dependent differences in lateral pinch force.Journal of biomechanics · 2021Article
- Classifying muscle parameters with artificial neural networks and simulated lateral pinch data.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Erratum issued
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The wrist is essential for hand function. Yet, due to the complexity of the wrist and hand, studies often examine their biomechanical features in isolation. This approach is insufficient for understanding links between orthopaedic surgery at the wrist and concomitant functional impairments at the hand. We hypothesize that clinical reports of reduced force production by the hand following wrist surgeries can be explained by the surgically-induced, biomechanical changes to the system, even when those changes are isolated to the wrist. This study develops dynamic simulations of lateral pinch force following two common surgeries for wrist osteoarthritis: scaphoid-excision four-corner fusion (SE4CF) and proximal row carpectomy (PRC). Simulations of lateral pinch force production in the nonimpaired, SE4CF, and PRC conditions were developed by adapting published models of the nonimpaired wrist and thumb. Our simulations and biomechanical analyses demonstrate how the increased torque-generating requirements at the wrist imposed by the orthopaedic surgeries influence force production to such an extent that changes in motor control strategy are required to generate well-directed thumb-tip end-point forces. The novel implications of our work include identifying the need for surgeries that optimize the configuration of wrist axes of rotation, rehabilitation strategies that improve post-operative wrist strength, and scientific evaluation of motor control strategies following surgery. Our simulations of SE4CF and PRC replicate surgically-imposed decreases in pinch strength, and also identify the wrist's torque-generating capacity and the adaptability of muscle coordination patterns as key research areas to improve post-operative hand function.
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