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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2010 Nov 18;44(4):669–675. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2010.11.004

Table 3.

Summary of the relative maximum muscle force proportions of the non-paralyzed arm muscles used in the tetraplegic upper limb model.

Modeled strength Non-paralyzed muscles included in the tetraplegic upper limb model
BR-FPL BIC (both heads) and BRA TRI (all 3 heads) ECRB and ECRL
non-impaired 1 1 1 1
patient 1 0.880 0.602 0.874 0.245
patient 2 0.601 0.511 0.458 0.394
patient 3 0.640 0.566 0.548 0.589
patient 4 0.714 0.493 0.599 0.209
patient 5 0.650 0.443 0.686 0.171
average patienta 0.697 0.523 0.633 0.322
a

Average patient strength muscle force proportions are reported to indicate the average force-generating capacity of these muscles, in the patient cohort studied, in relation to non-impaired strength muscles.