Patient-specific Simulation of the Hip Joint Force for Planning of Total Hip Replacement

The loading of the implant during activities of daily living is among the most important factors for the lifetime of the prosthesis. Since morphology and motions patterns are inter-individually different, the alignment of the prosthesis should be planned patient-specifically to avoid adverse loading conditions during activities of daily living. Within a clinical workflow the simulation time has to be minimized and the number of required input parameters should be reduced to avoid additional time-consuming and expensive data acquisition. Therefore, the development and validation of integrated morpho-functional models that can be efficiently personalized for each patient on the basis of standard clinical information is one major objective of our work.