On Saturday Dr. Kainz together with Dr. Afschrift from KU Leuven (Belgium) and Dr. Trinler from the BG Ludwigshafen (Germany) introduced the participants of the workshop to a typical musculoskeletal modelling workflow. The team showed how you can use musculoskeletal models to calculate joint angles, joint moments, muscle forces and joint contact forces. During the hands-on sessions, the participants could replicate the workflow on their own laptop. The workshop was fully booked out and led to fruitful  discussion. Amongst the participants were leaders of clinical gait laboratories, study program directors, physiotherapists, researchers and PhD students.

In his invited talk, Dr. Kainz showed how you can use musculoskeletal models and simulations to answer clinically relevant research questions. He showed the advantages of musculoskeletal simulations in three practical examples. The first study he presented highlighted how you can use musculoskeletal models to calculate knee joint reaction forces to select the most appropriate exercises after a knee injury or surgery. In the second study he showed how you can simulate orthopedic surgeries and select the most promising treatment option. In the last study he showed the potential of predictive forward simulations to figure out the main cause for pathological gait in a child with cerebral palsy.

You can find more information about the workshop with the following link

https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu/display/OpenSim/GAMMA+workshop+2019