The muscles of the neck generate movements of the head and help maintain
stability of the cervical spine. We have used quantitative descriptions
of muscle architecture and musculoskeletal geometry to develop a biomechanical
model of the human neck. The model characterizes the moment arms,
force- and moment-generating capacities of 19 individual muscles over
physiological ranges of flexion, extension, axial rotation and lateral
bending.
Please contact Anita
Vasavada if you are interested in using the neck model.
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Animation
of the model for a neck roll motion. |
Vasavada, Li, and Delp. "Influence of
muscle morphometry and moment arms on the moment-generating capacity of
human neck muscles." Spine, 1998. (Download
PDF) |
