Femoral shaft strains during daily activities: Implications for atypical femoral fractures

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 869-876

  Martelli, Saulo ^a,b   Pivonka, Peter ^b,c   Ebeling, Peter R ^b,c  

^a Flinders University   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Australian Institute for Musculoskeletal Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti resorptive therapy; Atypical femoral fracture; Femoral strain patterns; Musculoskeletal and finite element modeling; Osteoporosis; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BONE; FRACTURE; KINETICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAIRS; TENSILE STRESS;

ANTI-RESORPTIVE THERAPY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; OSTEOPOROSIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; STRAIN PATTERNS;

TENSILE STRAIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BONE LENGTH; BONE STRESS; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR SHAFT; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SQUATTING; STANDING; STEPPING; TENSILE STRENGTH; WALKING; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DIAPHYSIS; ELASTICITY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DIAPHYSES; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POSTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; WALKING;

EID: 84922730597     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: 18791271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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