Investigation on the load-displacement curves of a human healthy heel pad: In vivo compression data compared to numerical results

• Published in: Medical engineering & physics Vol. 34; no. 9; pp. 1253 - 1259
• Main Authors: Fontanella, C.G., Matteoli, S., Carniel, E.L., Wilhjelm, J.E., Virga, A., Corvi, A., Natali, A.N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Anatomy; Biological and medical sciences; Biomechanical Phenomena; Calcaneus; Compression; Compressive Strength; Computerized, statistical medical data processing and models in biomedicine; Data processing; Energy dissipation; Experimental tests; Female; Finite Element Analysis; Finite element method; Foot; Health; Heel - physiology; Heel pad analysis; Humans; Hysteresis; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Materials Testing - instrumentation; Materials Testing - methods; Mathematical models; Medical sciences; Models and simulation; Models, Biological; Numerical model; Radiology; Skin; Visco-elasticity; Weight-Bearing; Heel pad analysis; Experimental tests; Numerical model; Visco-elasticity; Human; Viscoelasticity; Heel; Experimental study; Modeling; Foot; In vivo; Numerical simulation; Comparative study; Biomedical engineering

The aims of the present work were to build a 3D subject-specific heel pad model based on the anatomy revealed by MR imaging of a subject's heel pad, and to compare the load–displacement responses obtained from this model with those obtained from a compression device used on the subject's h...