Is it possible to create model on OpenSim representing a person with scoliosis?

[Humans Clinic]

I'd like to do both forward and inverse simulation for a person with thoracic scoliosis. Is it possible to do this on OpenSim?

[Samuele Gould]

Hi, yes this is possible. It is the focus of my current work. Others have already published papers on this, I would recommend reading them:

Spinal Compressive Forces in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis With and Without Carrying Loads: A Musculoskeletal Modeling Study by Schmid et al. 2020
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10 ... 00159/full

and

Development and validation of a modeling workflow for the generation of image-based, subject-specific thoracolumbar models of spinal deformity by Overbergh et al. 2020
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 7xUfhUzDVU

Until now I have not seen a scoliotic model of the spine that can be downloaded. As a base model which you can edit to create a scoliotic model I would suggest you look at the model by Bruno et al.
Development and Validation of a Musculoskeletal Model of the Fully Articulated Thoracolumbar Spine and Rib Cage by Bruno et al. 2015
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/ ... FmzXpS_nzg
The model by Bruno et al. can be downloaded here: https://simtk.org/projects/spine_ribcage/

If instead you are wanting to model the adolescents population start from the model developed by Schmid et al. 2020, Musculoskeletal full-body models includeing a detailed thoracolumbar spine for children and adolescents aged 6-18 years
This model can be download here: https://simtk.org/projects/spine-children

Good luck,
Samuele