BIOMECHANICAL COMPARISON OF THE ANNULUS FIBROSUS BETWEEN RATS AND MINI-PIGS

J. Chen¹, A. Parmenter^1,2, A. Sharma¹, J. Brunet^1,3, S. Zwingenberger^4,5, D. B. Raina⁶, E. Bele¹, T. Urban^1,3, H. Dejea³, S. Marussi², A. A Pitsillides⁷, P. D Lee^1,2

¹Mechanical Engineering, University College London, London, UK; ²Research Complex at Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK; ³European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble; ⁴University Centre for Orthopaedic, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany; ⁵Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany; ⁶Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Orthopedics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; ⁷Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK

STRUCTURAL GRADIENTS IN LACUNAR MORPHOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION IN THE MOUSE FEMORAL HEAD EPIPHYSIS

T. Tang^1,2, J. Zhong^2,3, J. Hu³, V. Schemenz⁴, W. Wagermaier², A. Pitsillides⁵, W. Landis⁶, P. Fratzl², J. Chen³

¹University of Virginia, United States of America; ²Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; ³University of Exeter, UK; ⁴Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany; ⁵Royal Veterinary College, UK; ⁶University of California at San Francisco

CALIBRATION OF A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR OPTIMIZING COMPLEX TIBIAL PLATEAU FRACTURE FIXATION

S. Comtesse^1,2, L. Sommerhalder², S. Sandriesser^5,6, R. Pätzold^5,7, T. Zumbrunn², A. Von Keudell^2,3,4, P. Augat^5,6, S. J. Ferguson¹, B. Helgason¹

¹Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; ²CustomSurg AG, Zurich, Switzerland; ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; ⁴Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; ⁵Institute for Biomechanics, BG Unfallklinik Murnau, Germany; ⁶Institute for Biomechanics, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria; ⁷Department of Trauma Surgery, BG Unfallklinik Murnau, Germany

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF MARROW PROPERTIES ON BONE STRENGTH IN PAEDIATRIC FEMORA

G. Allison^1,2, S. Almutairi³, A. C Offiah^2,3, X. Li^1,2

¹School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; ²INSIGNEO Institute, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; ³School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

INTEGRATING COMAK WITH HELEN HAYES PROTOCOL FOR ENHANCED GAIT ANALYSIS IN OSTEOARTHRITIS PATIENTS

M. A. Loayza Saldaña¹, A. Berger¹, B. Killen², S. Tassani¹, F. Ojeda³, L. Tio³, J. Monfort³, I. Jonkers², G. Serrancolí⁴, G. Piella¹, J. Noailly¹

¹Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; ²Human Movement Biomechanics, KU Leuven, Belgium; ³Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Simulation and Movement Analysis Lab, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

ON COUPLING INTERPOLATION AND MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL TO ESTIMATE SCAPULA KINEMATICS

A. RAUD¹, M. Bourgain^1,2, C. Sauret^1,3, H. Pillet^1,3

¹Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak (IBHGC), France; ²EPF Graduate School of Engineering, France; ³Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Appareillage des Handicapés, France

STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF HAMSTRING INJURIES: DIFFERENCES IN MUSCLE SHAPE AND RUNNING KINEMATICS

D. Nicolella¹, L. Frazer¹, N. Louis¹, G. Myer²

¹Southwest Research Institute, United States of America; ²Emory Sports Performance and Research Center (SPARC), USA