Are spontaneous fractures possible? An example of clinical application for personalised, multiscale neuro-musculo-skeletal modelling

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 421-426

  Viceconti, Marco ^a   Taddei, Fulvia ^a   Cristofolini, Luca ^a,b   Martelli, Saulo ^a   Falcinelli, Cristina ^a   Schileo, Enrico ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hip fracture; Multiscale model; Neuromotor degradation; Osteoporosis; Spontaneous fracture

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTROL DEGRADATION; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE; FEMORAL NECKS; FINITE ELEMENT; HIP FRACTURE; INVERSE DYNAMICS; LEVEL WALKING; MONTE CARLO; MULTI-BODY; MULTISCALE MODELS; MULTISCALES; NEUROMOTOR; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOPOROTIC; SARCOPENIA;

BIOMECHANICS; DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

FRACTURE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAIT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE DEGENERATION; OSTEOPENIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 84856046192     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2011.11.048     Document Type: Article

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