845 Simulation analysis of muscle load for pregnant women
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The objectives of this study were to develop a musculoskeletal model which can compute muscle load of the whole body for a pregnant woman, and to clarify the muscle load by the simulation. First, non-pregnant woman model was constructed based on the body size of the average values for the Japanese women. Then, a pregnant woman model was constructed paying attention to the features of the pregnant women, such as the exaggerated abdomen, load on the abdomen, increased weight and body fat. A simulation of the standing position was conducted for these models. The hip flexion angle was varied as a parameter. It was found that the muscle force of erector spinae for the pregnant woman becomes three times larger than that for the non-pregnant woman.
