A TIME-EFFICIENT METHOD FOR ANALYZING BONE STRAIN WITH LARGE SUBJECT POOLS

Due to the difficulties in measuring in-vivo strain there has been some momentum in utilizing numerical modeling methods to investigate strain. Finite element modeling (FEM) has been used in past investigations in conjunction with mechanical testing of cadaver specimens to investigate certain aspects of bone stress and strain. This methodology is quite time consuming computationally, however, and can be difficult to use in conjunction with subject-specific kinematic and kinetic data, thus limiting its application in investigations requiring large subject pools.