Assessment of Musculoskeletal Loads in Three Types of Body Posture According to Dolphens
摘要
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of body posture type according to the Dolphens on musculoskeletal loads. There are three types of posture: neutral, swayback and lordotic according to Dolphens classification. The study involved a group of 29 subjects. Assessment of body posture was carried out using the Posture Photographic Assessment System. The following parameters were measured for each subject: pelvic tilt angle, lumbosacral and thoracolumbar tilt, upper kyphosis tilt angle. The position of the joints and individual body segments in relation to the vertical axis, the position of the centre of mass of the body and the values of the ground reaction forces were determined. The results obtained provided the input for the modelling of the posture of each person in the AnyBody Modelling System. A full-body Standing Model was used. The model was scaled to the weight and height of each subject. The highest values of lumbar loads were observed in subjects with a kyphotic posture. For those with a kyphotic posture, the average resultant force at the L5-S1 level was 0.97 ± 0.31 BW (BW - body weight). For those with a lordotic posture it was 0.87 ± 0.27 BW and for those with a neutral posture it was 0.86 ± 0.15 BW. Subjects with a kyphotic posture had the highest values for the compressive component of the force at the L5-S1 joint (0.96 ± 0.31 BW). The highest shear force values were obtained for the lordotic posture (0.1 ± 0.04 BW). The study also assessed the force values of the abdominal and dorsal muscles.