EFFECT OF L4-L5 DISC NUCLEOTOMY ON SPINE BIOMECHANICS USING A DETAILED MUSCULOSKELETAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL

A. Haghighi¹, N. Arjmand², M. El-Rich³, A. Shirazi-Adl⁴

¹Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of; ²Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of; ³Khalifa University, UAE; ⁴Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

MORPHING FEM MESHES OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC INTO MRI-DERIVED GEOMETRIES – A NEW METHOD

K. Nispel¹, T. Lerchl¹, G. Gruber¹, V. Senner², J. S. Kirschke¹

¹Institute of Neuroradiology, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Germany; ²Professorship of Sport Equipment and Sport Materials, Technical University of Munich, Germany

INVESTIGATION OF 3D STRAIN AND FIBRE CRIMP IN INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS DURING PHYSIOLOGICAL BENDING

T. Slater¹, V. van Heeswijk², A. Thambyah², N. Newell¹

¹Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ²University of Auckland, New Zealand

COMPARISON OF THE EXPERIMENTAL VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF HEALTHY BOVINE AND MATURE OVINE INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS

P. M. A. Alipat, M. Mengoni, R. Wilcox, N. Wijyathunga

University of Leeds, United Kingdom

EX VIVO AND IN SILICO INVESTIGATION OF COMBINED DYNAMIC COMPRESSION, TORSION, AND IL-1β IΝ INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS

K. B Crump^1,2, E. Muñoz-Moya⁴, K. de Graaf¹, P. Bermudez-Lekerika^1,2, C. Le Maitre³, J. Noailly⁴, B. Gantenbein^1,5

¹TOM Lab, Department for BioMedical Research, Medical Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland; ²Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland; ³Division of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, UK; ⁴BCN MedTech, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; ⁵Department of Orthopedic Surgery & Traumatology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland

PORO-VISCOELASTIC MODELING OF THE HUMAN INTERVERTEBRAL DISC BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION MRI-DERIVED MORPHOLOGY

F. Rieger¹, K. Raftery², A. Ristaniemi³, G. Samaras¹, N. Newell², E. Dall'Ara⁴, S. J. Ferguson¹

¹ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ²Imperial College London, United Kingdom; ³University of Eastern Finland, Finland; ⁴University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

DISC IN SPACE – RISK FACORS FOR ASTRONAUT DISC DISORDERS

L. Baumgartner, E. Muñoz-Moya, J. Noailly

Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

SPINAL FLEXION COMPENSATION IN ADULT SPINAL DEFORMITY 2-YEARS AFTER SURGERY

T. Leppens, B. Peeters, S. Schelfaut, L. Moke, L. Scheys

IORT, Belgium