... is a software system for simulation of human movement. It can model smaller or larger subsets of the musculo-skeletal system (or the entire body) and compute muscle forces, joint reactions, metabolism, mechanical work, efficiency, etc. for given movements.

Any property of the AnyBody™ model is parametric, and the system can be used for optimization of movement patterns, working positions, anthropometric data, boundary conditions etc.

Technically, the system is characterized by the following properties:

• It uses an optimization technique to solve the muscle recruitment problem and reverses this by means of other optimization techniques so that forward dynamics problems can also be treated.
• It handles static and dynamic models.
• Models are fully three-dimensional.
• It runs on the MS Windows platform.
• It handles very large models on small computers. It is entirely feasible to analyse a model with several hundreds of muscles on an ordinary PC.
• Models are developed in the body modeling language AnyScript™.

The AnyBody Modeling System™ is self-contained. It does not build on top of any other platform or require any additional software to be installed.

The AnyBody Modeling System™ is available from AnyBody Technology with discounted license prices for research and teaching purposes. Price information is available on request.

AnyBody can be used to investigate a number of fundamental questions as well as to solve practical problems of ergonomics. Typical investigations could be:

• What are the benefits of antagonist muscle forces?
• Why do we have bi-articular muscles?
• How should we design a workplace for a particular repetitive work process?
• What are the causes of wrist- elbow- and shoulder pains from working with a computer mouse?
• How can we apply functional electrical stimulation of muscles to obtain a desired motion?
• What is the ideal anthropometry of a sportsman in a particular discipline?
• How can the central nervous system relieve the load on an injured joint, muscle, or ligament, and what consequences does it have for the rest of the musculo-skeletal system?

...are available. They are full-blown versions of the system valid for 30 days after you install the software. Please come this way to register for a demo license.