Effect of U-shaped implant on the biomechanics of the cervical spine
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mumtaz, Muzammil; Zafarparandeh, Iman; Taherzadeh, Paniz; Akinci, Saliha Zeyneb; Erbulut, Deniz Ufuk
- Source
- 2016 20th National Biomedical Engineering Meeting (BIYOMUT) Biomedical Engineering Meeting (BIYOMUT), 2016 20th National. :1-3 Nov, 2016
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Implants
Read only memory
Finite element analysis
Computational modeling
Indexes
Ligaments
Surface treatment
cervical implant
finite element model
- Language
Fusion has been a standard method of treatment for decades as it tends to reduce or eliminate the pain at the operated segment. However, this method has a drawback that it results in the increase of stress and range of motion (ROM) at the adjacent levels. During the past few decades various implants have been modeled and tested to overcome the issue of adjacent level effects. Most of the implants have gone through various in vitro, in vivo and Finite Element (FE) studies. However, the U-Shaped implant for cervical spine has not been studied in such detail which motivated us to do FE analysis of U-Shaped implant. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of a U-Shaped implant on the biomechanics of the cervical spine. The implant showed reasonable results for adjacent segments and maximum increase in ROM was 14 percent at C3-C4 level for lateral bending. But the results were not promising for restoration at the index level.