Posted by: Adam Graf
« on: August 16, 2016, 10:14:02 AM »This analysis would call on OpenSim (free download) to run muscle tendon length (MTL) estimations based on gait trials. The program applies the kinematic data to the OpenSim model and outputs patient MTLs compared to optimal MTLs. We display this data as a graph for each muscle of interest over one gait cycle. The Y axis is 'Normalized MTL (%)' so a value of 1 would mean that the MTL is operating at an optimal lenth, below 1 would be short and above 1 would be long.