Passive Cervical Spine Ligaments Provide Stability during Head Impacts in Vivo
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| author | Kuo, Calvin Sheffels, Jodie Fanton, Michael Yu, Ina Bianca Hamalainen, Rosa Camarillo, David |
| author_facet | Kuo, Calvin Sheffels, Jodie Fanton, Michael Yu, Ina Bianca Hamalainen, Rosa Camarillo, David |
| contents | It has long been suggested that neck muscle strength and anticipatory cocontraction can decrease head motions during head impacts. Here, we quantify the relative angular impulse contributions of neck soft tissue to head stabilization using a musculoskeletal model with Hill-type muscles and rate-dependent ligaments. We simulated sagittal extension and lateral flexion mild experimental head impacts performed on 10 subjects with relaxed or cocontracted muscles, and median American football head impacts. We estimated angular impulses from active muscle, passive muscle, and ligaments during head impact acceleration and deceleration phases. During the acceleration phase, active musculature produced resistive angular impulses that were 30% of the impact angular impulse in experimental impacts with cocontracted muscles. This was reduced below 20% in football impacts. During the deceleration phase, active musculature stabilized the head with 50% of the impact angular impulse in experimental impacts with cocontracted muscles. However, passive ligaments provided greater stabilizing angular impulses in football impacts. The redistribution of stabilizing angular impulses results from ligament and muscle dependence on lengthening rate, where ligaments stiffen substantially compared to active muscle at high lengthening rates. Thus, ligaments provide relatively greater deceleration impulses in these impacts, which limits the effectiveness of muscle strengthening or anticipated activations. |
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| spellingShingle | Passive Cervical Spine Ligaments Provide Stability during Head Impacts in Vivo Kuo, Calvin Sheffels, Jodie Fanton, Michael Yu, Ina Bianca Hamalainen, Rosa Camarillo, David Tissues and Organs It has long been suggested that neck muscle strength and anticipatory cocontraction can decrease head motions during head impacts. Here, we quantify the relative angular impulse contributions of neck soft tissue to head stabilization using a musculoskeletal model with Hill-type muscles and rate-dependent ligaments. We simulated sagittal extension and lateral flexion mild experimental head impacts performed on 10 subjects with relaxed or cocontracted muscles, and median American football head impacts. We estimated angular impulses from active muscle, passive muscle, and ligaments during head impact acceleration and deceleration phases. During the acceleration phase, active musculature produced resistive angular impulses that were 30% of the impact angular impulse in experimental impacts with cocontracted muscles. This was reduced below 20% in football impacts. During the deceleration phase, active musculature stabilized the head with 50% of the impact angular impulse in experimental impacts with cocontracted muscles. However, passive ligaments provided greater stabilizing angular impulses in football impacts. The redistribution of stabilizing angular impulses results from ligament and muscle dependence on lengthening rate, where ligaments stiffen substantially compared to active muscle at high lengthening rates. Thus, ligaments provide relatively greater deceleration impulses in these impacts, which limits the effectiveness of muscle strengthening or anticipated activations. |
| title | Passive Cervical Spine Ligaments Provide Stability during Head Impacts in Vivo |
| topic | Tissues and Organs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03102 |