Objective To explore the biomechanical changes of the lumbar spine segment of idiopathic
scoliosis under different loads by simulating six kinds of lumbar spine motions based on a …

Scoliosis is a deformity of the spine that in severe cases requires surgical treatment. There is
still disagreement among clinicians as to what the aim of such treatment is as well as the …

Objective: To explore the effect of osteoporosis on the stress, stability, and lumbar
intervertebral disc of AIS lumbar vertebrae by finite element method. Better understand the …

The accuracy of the Cobb measurement is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of
scoliosis. Manual measurement is however influenced by the observer variability hence …

Finite element analysis has proven to be a viable method for assessing many structure-
function relationships in the human lumbar spine. Several validated models of the spine …

Basic knowledge about the thoracic spinal flexibility is limited and to the authors' knowledge,
no in vitro studies have examined the flexibility of every thoracic spinal segment under …

In spine research, two possibilities to generate models exist: generic (population-based)
models representing the average human and subject-specific representations of individuals …

Rib cage 3D reconstruction is an important prerequisite for thoracic spine modelling,
particularly for studies of the deformed thorax in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. This study …

This paper presents a systematic study in reviewing the application of finite element method
for the analysis of correction mechanism of spine deformity due to scoliosis. The study is …

An optimal surgical strategy for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is to provide maximal
deformity correction while preserving spinal mobile segments as much as possible and …