03/28/2012
MAE Seminar
Speaker: Professor B.J Fregley
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
University of Florida
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: MEC 341
Refreshments: 3:30 pm in MEC 341
SIMULATION-BASED TREATMENT DESIGN
FOR GAIT-RELATED DISORDERS
Imagine a world where orthopedic surgeries and neurorehabilitation procedures are custom tailored to the patient, similar to how suits can be custom tailored to the business executive. In addition to using subjective clinical experience and simple anatomic measurements, clinicians use patient-specific computer models to design customized treatments. These models are created from pre-treatment movement and imaging data and are utilized within state-of-the-art simulation and optimization environments. The simulations allow clinicians to develop objective predictions of post-treatment function for various treatment designs under consideration. The end result is millions of patients whose quality of life is greatly improved through these technologies.
The Computational Biomechanics Lab at the University of Florida is seeking to make this futuristic scenario a reality. The lab’s current research focus is on clinical problems related to knee osteoarthritis, with existing projects involving 1) computational simulation of knee osteoarthritis development, 2) computational design of a rehabilitation treatment for knee osteoarthritis, and 3) computational estimation of knee muscle and contact forces during walking. Each of these three areas will be covered in this seminar, along with extensions under development to design patient-specific neurorehabilitation treatments that normalize post-stroke walking function.
http://www2.mae.ufl.edu/~fregly/
MAE Faculty Hosts:
Hossein Haj-Hariri [email protected]
Silvia Blemker [email protected]
