Buckle muscle tension transducer: what does it measure?
The question is considered whether the strain of a buckle transducer attached to a muscle tendon provides a proportional measure of the force of the muscle acting directly on that tendon. It is shown that if muscle contains elastic and/or viscous elements in parallel with the force generator, the transducer strain may, under certain conditions, reflect other applied forces acting on the load (limb) in addition to the muscle force.
Hahs
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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Huntsville 35899.
Stiles
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D000818:Animals; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009132:Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D013710:Tendons / Q000502:physiology; D014159:Transducers