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Three-dimensional continuous muscle moment arm maps for the anatomical shoulder

2025· article· en· W4407272401 on OpenAlexafffund
David Axford, Robert Potra, Richard Appleyard, Janos Tomka, Antonio Arenas-Miquelez, Dávid Holló, Sumit Raniga, Louis M. Ferreira

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Biomechanics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicShoulder Injury and Treatment
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersMitacs
KeywordsMoment (physics)AnatomyOrthodonticsPhysicsComputer sciencePhysical medicine and rehabilitationBiomedical engineeringMedicineClassical mechanics

Abstract

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A muscle's moment arm represents its mechanical advantage and indicates its role in joint actuation and rotational stability. The objective of this study was to use an ex-vivo simulator to map the moment arms of eight major shoulder muscles across a continuous range of motion. The three-dimensional moment arms for the deltoid (anterior, lateral, and posterior), subscapularis (inferior and superior), supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor were measured in eight specimens (57 ± 6 years) using the tendon excursion method. The anterior deltoid had a significantly larger elevation moment arm in anterior planes of elevation (p < 0.001) while the lateral deltoid had a significantly larger elevation moment arm in posterior planes (p < 0.001). The posterior deltoid was an antagonist to elevation with anterior arm orientations (p < 0.001). The supraspinatus had biphasic function; in anterior elevation planes it was a horizontal extensor and internal rotator but was a horizontal flexor and external rotator in posterior planes (p < 0.001). The infraspinatus and superior subscapularis were both arm elevators, but the infraspinatus was an external rotator and horizontal extensor while the superior subscapularis was an internal rotator and horizontal flexor. The inferior subscapularis was a horizontal flexor and internal rotator while the teres minor was an antagonist to elevation, horizontal extensor, and external rotator. Each muscle had a multifaceted function which changed significantly with arm orientation for all muscles except the inferior subscapularis. The muscle moment arms maps created in this study improve current understandings of the three-dimensional function of eight major muscles in the shoulder.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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