Sudden deceleration and frontal/rear impact configurations involve rapid movements that
can cause spinal injuries. This study aimed to investigate the rotation rate effect on the L2–L3 …

Study Design. Biomechanical analysis of proximal junctional kyphosis (PJK) through computer
simulations and sensitivity analysis. Objective. To gain biomechanical knowledge on the …

Study Design. To analyze Boston brace biomechanics, pressure measurements and finite
element simulations were done on 12 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. Objectives. The …

Treadmill walking is commonly used to analyze several gait cycles in a limited space. Depth
cameras, such as the low-cost and easy-to-use Kinect sensor, look promising for gait …

Study Design: Detailed biomechanical analysis of the anchorage performance provided by
different pedicle screw designs and placement strategies under pullout loading. Objective: To …

Cellular protuberance formation in walled cells requires the local deformation of the wall
and its polar expansion. In many cells, protuberance elongation proceeds by tip growth, a …

Study Design. Multiple brace designs were simulated using a finite element model and their
biomechanical effect was evaluated. Objective. To study correlations between immediate in-…

The flexibility of the scoliotic spine is an important biomechanical parameter to take into
account in the planning of surgical instrumentation. The objective of the paper was to develop a …

This paper presents a unified framework for automatic segmentation of intervertebral disks
of scoliotic spines from different types of magnetic resonance (MR) image sequences. The …

Very few computer models of the spine integrate vertebral growth plates to investigate their
mechanical behavior and potential impacts on bone growth. An approach was developed to …