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We are looking forward to welcome researchers from all over the world for a three days seminar on musculoskeletal modeling with the AnyBody Modeling System end of Sept. A preliminary program can be found here.

Together with our research partners we have suceeded to get grants for a µCT from the DFG! This will help us to strengthen our research on bone mechanics and material sciences. More info will follow.

Parts of Michael Putzers work have been presented at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Boston, MA this week. The poster is entiteled: T”he Influence of Vertebral Body Geometry on Lumbar Spine Loading.” and can be found here: WCB2014_Poster_final

Tim Weber who is currently on its way towards his Phd in our lab has succeeded in publishing parts of his work in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research. The paper is titeled: “The influence of minimally-invasive total hip replacement on hip reaction forces and their orientations”. Congrats Tim, great job!

We had the pleasure to host Dr. Igor Lazarev, Head of the Biomechanics Laboratory of the Research Institute for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Kiev, Ukraine for one week at our lab. Dr. Lazarev is a very experienced researcher in orthopedic biomechanics who brought a lot of great ideas and impulses. I’m looking forward to a fruitful cooperation on some of the most emerging topics in rehabilitation orthopedics.

Here you can find a video of a recent presentation on musculoskeletal simulation. I hope it’s of some value, even so the quality might be not as good.

Musculoskeletal simulations are frequently used to determine the internal loads of the human body. However, the accuracy of the anatomical dataset and actually often the lack of data lead to some uncertainty of the underlying models. In this study we investigated the influence of vertebral geometrical parameter on lumbar spine loads. Therefore, an lumbar spine model has been derived and the effect of altered geometrical parameters has been analyzed.

The laboratory for Biomechanics is hosting a AnyBody Info day. The purpose of the event is to get researchers together and give inspiration for new exciting projects. More information can be found here: www.rcbe.de

Tim Weber, Mitarbeiter des LBM im Bereich Muskuloskelettale Simulation und Ganganalysen, nimmt am 19.02. am FAMELAB Wettbewerb teil. Die Veranstaltung ist ab 20 Uhr in der Alten Mälzerei in Regensburg. Das FAMELAB ist ein internationaler Wissenschaftswettbewerb. Mehr Infos hier.