Abstract
A method for estimating mechanochemical constants of the human skeletal muscle, such as elastic coefficient of the series elastic component, Es, elastic coefficient of the parallel elastic component, Ep, heat constant, a and rate constant of energy liberation, b was proposed; force responses to ramp length perturbation of the muscle at the resting and contracting states were compared with those of the model during the short period(50ms) after the onset of the perturbation. Time course of the length perturbation which could lead to the accurate estimation was determined by model analysis, in this paper. And, availability of this method was showed by applying it to the human pollicis longus flexor muscle.
