Researching Spine Fractures with Human Tissue

By: catkins (2) in BU Today

Doctoral candidate Tim Jackman (ENG’15) believed knew that the answer to preventing a common [...]back injury—wedge fractures that typically result from heavy lifting—lay in calculating the amount of stress that human vertebrae could withstand.

Tags: engineering, stress, human, innovation, spine, elise morgan, sample, orthopaedic, biomechanics, ct scan, vertebrae

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