Biofidelic finite element models for accurately classifying hip fracture in a retrospective clinical study of elderly women from the AGES Reykjavik cohort

Clinical retrospective studies have only reported limited improvements in hip fracture classification accuracy using finite element (FE) models compared to conventional areal bone mineral density (aBMD) measurements. A possible explanation is that state-of-the-art quasi-static models do not estimate patient-specific loads. A novel FE modeling technique was developed to improve the biofidelity of simulated impact loading from sideways falling. This included surrogate models of the pelvis, lower extremities, and soft tissue that were morphed based on subject anthropometrics.

Source: Bone - September 18, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: W.S. Enns-Bray, H. Bahaloo, I. Fleps, Y. Pauchard, E. Taghizadeh, S. Sigurdsson, T. Aspelund, P. B üchler, T. Harris, V. Gudnason, S.J. Ferguson, H. Palsson, B. Helgason Tags: Full Length Article Source Type: research