Development of a unicondylar knee joint prosthesis with physiological kinematics
At a glance
- Project leader : Dr. Michaela Nusser
- Project team : , Adrian Gomez Diaz , Luca Kiener, Markus Rohner
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : Innosuisse (Innovationsprojekt / Projekt Nr. 36710.1 IP-LS)
- Project partner : Mathys AG Bettlach
- Contact person : Michaela Nusser
Description
This project has two objectives: 1. to optimise the surface geometry of an existing unicondylar knee prosthesis in order to enable natural knee kinematic 2. to model and validate a generally valid parameter model of the knee ligaments in FEA.
In the development process, both experimental robot-supported tests on human specimens and calibrated FE models are used.