Development and validation of a human knee joint finite element model for tissue stress and strain predictions during exercise

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative condition of cartilage and is the leading cost of disability in the United States. Motion analysis experiments in combination with knee-joint finite element (FE) analysis may be used to identify exercises that maintain knee-joint osteochondral (OC) loading at sa...

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Main Author: Wangerin, Spencer D
Format: Others
Published: DigitalCommons@CalPoly 2013
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1129
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2217&context=theses