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Pleаse uplоаd dоcumentаtiоn of your methods/work or Matlab code here in PDF file format. Points are awarded here are based on readability, reproducibility, and efficiency. Accuracy of your code is evaluated in question prompts above. If you have more than one file/file type, we'd appreciate if you combined them in to one but an additional file upload box is included below if necessary.
Yоu’re dоing а reseаrch study аnalyzing the effect оf anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries on knee joint motion and tissue loading. In the following questions you will analyze data from a single ex-vivo (cadaveric) knee joint tested in both healthy and ACL transected (cut in situ) states. You are using a robot to mimic knee joint loading. The robot held the knee joint in a fixed position of flexion-extension and applied a translation of the tibia to result in an anterior or posterior translation. Thus, the prescribed motion of this test was the anterior/posterior translation distance and the measured load was the load carried by the ACL. Motion in all other planes was restricted. A schematic of the experimental setup is shown below. Two different experiments were conducted to understand tissue mechanics of the knee with and without the ACL. Our first interest is studying the effect of ACL injury on the stability of the knee. To do this, we applied specific loading patterns to the tibia both before and after the ACL was transected. In the data found here, you see the prescribed translations (distances) and the resulting load measured in the system (i.e. the entire knee) between the healthy state and the ACL transected (cut) state. Thus, the difference between the two trials represents the load carried by the ACL. All data for this problem can be found here. Figure 1. Prescribed translations applied to the tibia to understand loading patterns in the knee.