Simulator Based Experimental Motion Analysis of 3D Printed Artificial Shoulder Joint Geometries

6 pages•Published: June 13, 2017

Nad Siroros, Mark Verjans, Klaus Radermacher and Jörg Eschweiler

Abstract

The glenohumeral joint is an important joint with large mobility of the human upper
extremity. In shoulder arthroplasty patients often has an unsatisfactory outcome. In order to understand the biomechanical complexity of the shoulder, a novel computer controlled experimental shoulder simulator with an innovative muscle control were constructed. The main component of the simulator includes the active pneumatic
muscles to replicate
the deltoid and the rotator-cuff function and two springs as passive muscle. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of a variation of shoulder joint geometries on shoulder biomechanics in the basis of motion analysis. The radius of the glenoid cavity varied from 28-33mm with 2.5mm increment while the radius the humeral head are varied from 20.1-25.1 with 2.5mm increment. The “teach-in” function of the simulator allows an operator to assign the movement to the simulator where the lengths of the pneumatic muscles are recorded. Then the simulator repeats the assigned movement according to the recorded muscles length. The daily living activities includes abduction/adduction, internal/external rotation with adducted arm, and circumduction. The results show promising repeatability of the simulator with minor deviation. However, damage on the surface of the humeral head has been found which should be further studied for both shoulder behavior investigation and the shoulder simulator optimization. Therefore, this study is a decent initial study toward the verification of the simulator and lead to a better understanding of shoulder biomechanical behavior to cope with the clinical problems in the future.

Keyphrases: biomechanics, motion analysis, pneumatic muscle, shoulder joint simulator

In: Klaus Radermacher and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena (editors). CAOS 2017. 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, vol 1, pages 82-87.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/qXvX
	https://doi.org/10.29007/4vgs

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CAOS2017:Simulator_Based_Experimental_Motion,
  author    = {Nad Siroros and Mark Verjans and Klaus Radermacher and Jörg Eschweiler},
  title     = {Simulator Based Experimental Motion Analysis of 3D Printed Artificial Shoulder Joint Geometries},
  booktitle = {CAOS 2017. 17th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery},
  editor    = {Klaus Radermacher and Ferdinando Rodriguez Y Baena},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Health Sciences},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5305},
  url       = {/publications/paper/qXvX},
  doi       = {10.29007/4vgs},
  pages     = {82-87},
  year      = {2017}}

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