Elastography for Muscle Biomechanics: Toward the Estimation of Individual Muscle Force

Estimation of individual muscle force remains one of the main challenges in biomechanics. This review presents a series of experiments that used ultrasound shear wave elastography to support the hypothesis that muscle stiffness is linearly related to both active and passive muscle forces. Examples of studies that used measurement of muscle stiffness to estimate changes in muscle force are presented.

[1]  F. Hug,et al.  Massage induces an immediate, albeit short‐term, reduction in muscle stiffness , 2015, Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports.

[2]  M. Jubeau,et al.  Muscle shear elastic modulus is linearly related to muscle torque over the entire range of isometric contraction intensity. , 2015, Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology.

[3]  A. Nordez,et al.  Non‐invasive assessment of muscle stiffness in patients with duchenne muscular dystrophy , 2015, Muscle & nerve.

[4]  B. Vicenzino,et al.  Deloading tape reduces muscle stress at rest and during contraction. , 2014, Medicine and science in sports and exercise.

[5]  Pengfei Song,et al.  Ultrasound elastography: the new frontier in direct measurement of muscle stiffness. , 2014, Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

[6]  Juan Esteban Arango,et al.  3D ultrafast ultrasound imaging in vivo , 2014, Physics in medicine and biology.

[7]  G. Feuchtner,et al.  Sonoelastography: musculoskeletal applications. , 2014, Radiology.

[8]  N. Ishii,et al.  Length-force characteristics of in vivo human muscle reflected by supersonic shear imaging. , 2014, Journal of applied physiology.

[9]  H. Kanehisa,et al.  Muscle shear modulus measured with ultrasound shear‐wave elastography across a wide range of contraction intensity , 2014, Muscle & nerve.

[10]  Urszula Zaleska-Dorobisz,et al.  Ultrasound elastography - review of techniques and its clinical applications. , 2014, Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University.

[11]  F. Hug,et al.  Task dependency of motor adaptations to an acute noxious stimulation. , 2014, Journal of neurophysiology.

[12]  A. Nordez,et al.  Time‐course effect of exercise‐induced muscle damage on localized muscle mechanical properties assessed using elastography , 2014, Acta physiologica.

[13]  A. Nordez,et al.  Does Stress within a Muscle Change in Response to an Acute Noxious Stimulus? , 2014, PloS one.

[14]  M. Jubeau,et al.  Effect of vastus lateralis fatigue on load sharing between quadriceps femoris muscles during isometric knee extensions. , 2014, Journal of neurophysiology.

[15]  M Tanter,et al.  In vivo evaluation of the elastic anisotropy of the human Achilles tendon using shear wave dispersion analysis , 2014, Physics in medicine and biology.

[16]  Pengfei Song,et al.  Validation of shear wave elastography in skeletal muscle. , 2013, Journal of biomechanics.

[17]  Kevin J Parker,et al.  Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force: an ex-vivo study. , 2013, Journal of biomechanics.

[18]  M. Fink,et al.  Ultrasound elastography: principles and techniques. , 2013, Diagnostic and interventional imaging.

[19]  Armando Manduca,et al.  Comb-Push Ultrasound Shear Elastography (CUSE) With Various Ultrasound Push Beams , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

[20]  Lilian Lacourpaille,et al.  Influence of Passive Muscle Tension on Electromechanical Delay in Humans , 2013, PloS one.

[21]  A. Nordez,et al.  Shear elastic modulus can be used to estimate an index of individual muscle force during a submaximal isometric fatiguing contraction. , 2012, Journal of applied physiology.

[22]  A. Nordez,et al.  Evidence of changes in load sharing during isometric elbow flexion with ramped torque. , 2012, Journal of biomechanics.

[23]  Jie Tang,et al.  Muscle crush injury of extremity: quantitative elastography with supersonic shear imaging. , 2012, Ultrasound in medicine & biology.

[24]  François Hug,et al.  Characterization of passive elastic properties of the human medial gastrocnemius muscle belly using supersonic shear imaging. , 2012, Journal of biomechanics.

[25]  Lilian Lacourpaille,et al.  Supersonic shear imaging provides a reliable measurement of resting muscle shear elastic modulus , 2012, Physiological measurement.

[26]  François Hug,et al.  Estimation of Individual Muscle Force Using Elastography , 2011, PloS one.

[27]  Paul W. Hodges,et al.  Moving differently in pain: A new theory to explain the adaptation to pain , 2011, PAIN.

[28]  Mathieu Couade,et al.  In Vivo Quantitative Mapping of Myocardial Stiffening and Transmural Anisotropy During the Cardiac Cycle , 2011, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

[29]  Qingshan Chen,et al.  Rapid magnetic resonance elastography of muscle using one‐dimensional projection , 2008, Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI.

[30]  Walter Herzog,et al.  Model-based estimation of muscle forces exerted during movements. , 2007, Clinical biomechanics.

[31]  R. Gorman,et al.  A new method for measuring passive length-tension properties of human gastrocnemius muscle in vivo. , 2005, Journal of biomechanics.

[32]  David G Lloyd,et al.  Neuromusculoskeletal modeling: estimation of muscle forces and joint moments and movements from measurements of neural command. , 2004, Journal of applied biomechanics.

[33]  M. Fink,et al.  Supersonic shear imaging: a new technique for soft tissue elasticity mapping , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control.

[34]  G. H. Rose,et al.  Magnetic resonance elastography of skeletal muscle , 2001, Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI.

[35]  V. Edgerton,et al.  Predictability of skeletal muscle tension from architectural determinations in guinea pig hindlimbs. , 1984, Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology.

[36]  C. D. De Luca,et al.  Myoelectric signal versus force relationship in different human muscles. , 1983, Journal of applied physiology: respiratory, environmental and exercise physiology.

[37]  A. Huxley,et al.  The relation between stiffness and filament overlap in stimulated frog muscle fibres. , 1981, The Journal of physiology.

[38]  O. Lippold,et al.  The relation between force and integrated electrical activity in fatigued muscle , 1956, The Journal of physiology.

[39]  Kevin J Parker,et al.  Quantifying the passive stretching response of human tibialis anterior muscle using shear wave elastography. , 2014, Clinical biomechanics.