FRACTURE RISK PREDICTION OF METASTATIC BONE: WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS FOR CLINICAL APPLICATION?

H. Follet

Inserm, France

BONE STRESS RELAXATION IN PRESS-FIT FEMORAL KNEE IMPLANT FIXATION: EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS

T. Gersie¹, T. Bitter¹, R. Freeman², N. Verdonschot^1,3, D. Janssen¹

¹Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands; ²DePuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction, United Kingdom; ³University of Twente, The Netherlands

ARTICULATED SHAPE MODELING FOR PAEDIATRIC MUSCULOSKELETAL ANALYSIS: A LANDMARK-BASED APPROACH TO PREDICT BONE GEOMETRY

L. Carman, T. Besier, J. Choisne

Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand

MEASURING SPINAL STIFFNESS IN SCOLIOSIS PATIENTS: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN AXIAL TRACTION DEVICE

P. Bähler^1,2, S. Conticello^1,2, D. Hassar², L. Anderes², P. Büchler², S. Schmid^1,3

¹Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; ²University of Bern; ³University of Basel

COMPARISON OF IN-VIVO MEASURED LUMBAR SPINE LOADS IN DIFFERENT SITTING POSITIONS AND THOSE ESTIMATED BY A MUSCULOSKELETAL MODEL

F. Hu¹, I. Theodorakos², M. S. Andersen², R. Dumas¹, X. Wang¹

¹Univ Lyon, Univ Gustave Eiffel, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LBMC UMR T_9406, F-69622 Lyon, France; ²Aalborg University, Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg, Denmark

SIMPLIFIED VERSUS REALISTIC LOADING CONDITIONS IN SPINE MODELING: NUMERICAL CASE STUDY WITH LUMBAR FIXATION

R. Remus¹, A. Lipphaus^2,3, M. Neumann¹, B. Bender¹

¹Chair of Product Development, Deptarment of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ²Biomechanics Research Group, Deptartment of Mechanical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; ³Clinic of Pediatric Surgery, Marien Hospital Witten, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany