Fem Analysis Of The Human Knee Joint: A Review (springerbriefs In Applied Sciences And Technology)

In recent years, numerous scientific investigations have studied the anatomical, biomechanical and functional role of structures involved in the human knee joint. The Finite Element Method (FEM) has been seen as an interesting tool to study and simulate biosystems. It has been extensively used to analyse the knee joint and various types of knee diseases and rehabilitation procedures such as the High Tibial Osteotomy (HTO). This work presents a review on FEM analysis of the human knee joint and HTO knee surgery, and discusses how adequate this computational tool is for this type of biomedical applications. Hence, various studies addressing the knee joint based on Finite Element Analysis (FEA) are reviewed, and an overview of clinical and biomechanical studies on the optimization of the correction angle of the postoperative knee surgery is provided. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Finite Element Models of the Knee Joint (Zahra Trad, Abdelwahed Barkaoui, Moez Chafra, João Manuel R. S. Tavares)....Pages 1-34 Finite Element Analysis Applications in Biomechanical Studies of the Knee Joint (Zahra Trad, Abdelwahed Barkaoui, Moez Chafra, João Manuel R. S. Tavares)....Pages 35-60 Overview of High Tibial Osteotomy and Optimization of the Correction Angle (Zahra Trad, Abdelwahed Barkaoui, Moez Chafra, João Manuel R. S. Tavares)....Pages 61-76 Conclusions and Future Work (Zahra Trad, Abdelwahed Barkaoui, Moez Chafra, João Manuel R. S. Tavares)....Pages 77-79