Conference Agenda

BIOMECHANICAL ASSESSMENT OF EXTERNAL FIXATORS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PELVIC INJURY TYPE AO61 C1.3A

A. H. Meuser¹, A. Höch², P. Henys³, C. Kleber², D. Haspinger¹, A. Gänsslen⁴, N. Hammer^1,2,5

¹Medical University of Graz, Austria; ²Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, University of Leipzig, Germany; ³Institute of New Technologies and Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mechatronics, Informatics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic; ⁴Clinic for Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Hand Surgery, Wolfsburg Hospital, Germany; ⁵Division of Biomechatronics, Fraunhofer IWU, Dresden, Germany

A FLEXIBLE SIMULATION FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE TKA-ALIGNMENT VARIATIONS UNDER REALISTIC LOADING CONDITIONS

A. Maas^1,2, R. Larrainzar-Garijo³, P. Damm⁴, S. H. Hosseini Nasab⁵, T. M. Grupp^1,2

¹Research and Development, Aesculap AG, Germany; ²Musculoskeletal University Centre Munich, LMU Munich; ³Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor Madrid, Spain; ⁴Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; ⁵Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

COMPARISON OF RETRIEVED AND WEAR-SIMULATED FIXED-BEARING POLYETHYLENE INSERTS

N. B. Abd Razak¹, B. O'Brien², N. Webb³, R. Vemuri³, B. M Walters³, A. E Kedgley¹

¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²Stryker Innovation Centre, Ireland; ³Stryker Corporation, USA

NAIL VERSUS PLATE IN TIBIOCALCANEAL ARTHRODESIS - A BIOMECHANICAL STUDY

I. Zderic¹, K. Klos², M. Dhillon^1,3, B. Gueorguiev¹, M. Lenz⁴

¹AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland; ²Gelenkzentrum Rhein-Main, Germany; ³Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER), India; ⁴Jena University Hospital, Germany

DEFORMATION AND DAMAGE PATTERNS OF THIN TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT LINERS UNDER ADVERSE LOADING CONDITIONS

N. B. Cooper¹, L. Etchels¹, N. Wijayathunga¹, D. Horne², S. Williams¹, R. Wilcox¹

¹University of Leeds, United Kingdom; ²DePuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction, United Kingdom

PHYSIOLOGICAL OR RIGID – THE COMMON DILEMMA IN IN VITRO TESTING OF HIP ARTHROPLASTY PROCEDURES

P. J. Schlieker, M. M. Morlock, G. Huber

TUHH Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

PRIMARY MECHANICAL STABILITY OF OSSEOINTEGRATED TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHESIS

G. Galteri¹, M. Palanca¹, V. Betti¹, D. Alesi², S. Zaffagnini², K. Morellato³, E. Gruppioni³, L. Cristofolini¹

¹Alma Mater Studiorum- University of Bologna, Italy; ²IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, IT; ³Centro Protesi INAIL, Vigorso di Budrio, Bologna, IT