- 著者
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原田 雅隆
増田 新
小林 創
澁谷 颯之
- 出版者
- 一般社団法人 日本機械学会
- 雑誌
- シンポジウム: スポーツ・アンド・ヒューマン・ダイナミクス講演論文集 2018 (ISSN:24329509)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- pp.B-28, 2018 (Released:2019-05-25)
In recent years, the number of patients with low back pain has increased, and it is a problem in various aspects such as health and economics. It is caused by a mechanical load acting on the muscles and the spine in the lumbar part. To reduce the risk of back pain, a support wear that reduces the load on the lumbar spine during flexion has been suggested by our group. This paper presents a dynamic model to calculate the load on the lumbar vertebrae. Especially, ligament tension considering Flexion Relaxation Phenomenon (FRP) which has not been considered so far and intra-abdominal pressure using two dimensional image information were modeled. First, the degree of FRP was measured from the myoelectric potential information of the back muscle in different bending postures. Next, we modeled the ligament tension using the results. Finally, the intra-abdominal pressure was incorporated into the model to calculate the compression force of the lumbar spine, and the experiment to estimate the lumbar load was performed. As a result, the experiment show that the load of the lumbar spine increases markedly due to FRP and this model is effective in calculation of the lumbar load compared to results of actual measurements of internal pressure.