Maurice Curtin

• Trinity College Dublin

This study uses biomechanical modelling and computational optimization to investigate muscle activation in combination with applied external forces as a treatment for scoliosis. Bracing, which incorporates applied external forces, is the most popular non surgical treatment for scoliosis. Non surgical treatments which make use of muscle activation i...

This supplemental work to Christophy et al. ``On the modeling of the intervertebral joint in multibody models for the spine" (Multibody System Dynamics, Vol. 30, No. 4, 413-432 (2013).) reviews various formulations of stiffness matrices that can be used in conjunction with the relative motion of a pair of rigid bodies. Particular attention is paid...

The need to develop feasible computational musculoskeletal models of the spine has led to the development of several multibody models. Central features in these works are models for the ligaments, muscles, and intervertebral joint. The purpose of the present paper is to show how experimental measurements of joint stiffnesses can be properly incorpo...

Electronic supplementary material for On the modeling of the intervertebral joint in multibody models for the spine: Review of Stiffness Matrices for the Intervertebral Joint

The magnetisable stent assisted magnetic targeted drug delivery system in a physiologically stretched vessel is considered theoretically. The changes in the mechanical behaviour of the vessel are analysed under the influence of mechanical forces generated by blood pressure. In this 2D mathematical model a ferromagnetic, coiled wire stent is implant...