Direct electromagnetic coupling to determine diagnostic bone fracture stiffness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid prediction of adverse bone fracture healing outcome (e.g., nonunion and/or delayed union) is essential to advise adjunct therapies to reduce patient suffering and improving healing outcome. Radiographic diagnostic methods remain ineffective during early healing, resulting in average nonunion diagnosis times surpassing six months. To address this clinical deficit, we developed a novel diagnostic device to predict fracture healing outcome by noninvasive telemetric measurements of fracture bending stiffness. This study evaluated the hypothesis that our diagnostic antenna system is capable of accurately measuring temporal fracture healing stiffness, and advises the utility of this data for expedited prediction of healing outcomes during early (≤3 weeks) fracture recove

SUBMITTER: Wolynski JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347056 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature