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A system for modelling forces on the hip joint in one-legged stance
K E Tanner1, P E Reed, W Bonfield
1Department of Materials, Queen Mary College, London, UK.
Journal of Biomedical Engineering
|May 1, 1988
Abstract:
We describe a method of testing hip prostheses. The prosthesis is implanted in a proximal section of femur, which is loaded to model the forces applied through the acetabulum via the greater trochanter.