Journal
COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 379-388Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2018.1466117
Keywords
Biomechanics; sitting; seat; discomfort; finite element model; soft tissue
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Being seated for long periods, while part of many leisure or occupational activities, can lead to discomfort, pain and sometimes health issues. The impact of prolonged sitting on the body has been widely studied in the literature, with a large number of human-body finite element models developed to simulate sitting and assess seat-induced discomfort or to investigate the biomechanical factors involved. Here, we review the finite element models developed to investigate sitting discomfort or risk of pressure sores. Our study examines finite element models from twenty-seven papers, seventeen dedicated to assessing seating discomfort and ten dedicated to investigating pressure ulcers caused by prolonged sitting. The models' mesh composition and material properties are found to differ widely. These models share a lack of validation and generally make little allowance for anthropometric diversity.
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