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    Effect of Muscle Forces on Femur During Level Walking Using a Virtual Population of Older Women

    Aging is associated with a greater risk of muscle and bone disorders such as sarcopenia and osteoporosis. These conditions substantially affect one’s mobility and quality of life. In the past, muscles and bone...

    Zainab Altai, Erica Montefiori, **nshan Li in High Performance Computing for Drug Discov… (2024)

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    A multiscale model to predict current absolute risk of femoral fracture in a postmenopausal population

    Osteoporotic hip fractures are a major healthcare problem. Fall severity and bone strength are important risk factors of hip fracture. This study aims to obtain a mechanistic explanation for fracture risk in d...

    Pinaki Bhattacharya, Zainab Altai in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2019)

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    Investigating the mechanical response of paediatric bone under bending and torsion using finite element analysis

    Fractures of bone account 25% of all paediatric injuries (Cooper et al. in J Bone Miner Res 19:1976–1981, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1359/JBMR.040902). These c...

    Zainab Altai, Marco Viceconti in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (2018)