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J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2012, 5, 190-197 JBiSE / 10.4236/jbise.2012.54025 Published Online April 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/) Vibromyographic analysis of knee muscle imbalances in knee osteoarthritis Kenneth McLeod, Sara Morley, Andrew Matsushima Clinical Science and Engineering Research Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA Email: kmcleod@ Received 2 February 2012; revised 27 February 2012; accepted 12 March 2012 ABSTRACT disability and remarkably poor quality of life [1]. Health surveys indicate that over 25% of adults report a recent Muscle imbalances are a well accepted cause of mus- occurrence of knee pain [2], while almost 40% of older culo-skeletal pain, yet clinicians lack a simple, non- adults report current knee pain, resulting in over 10 mil- invasive, and reproducible means to assess muscle lion (non-injury related) ambulatory medical care visits effort during activities of daily living. To address this each year in the U.S. Moreover, the prevalence rates of issue, we have been developing vibromyography knee pain are showing dramatic secular increases [3]. (VMG) as a means to quantitatively assess muscle mechanical effort such that accurate muscle effort Interestingly, only two-thirds of