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Hi everyone!

New user of OpenSim here, I'm trying to figure out if its possible to model the biomechanics of reducing a femur fracture. Let me know your thoughts and how I can get started!

Thanks

Hi Jessica,

OpenSim is designed based on multi-body system, so each bone segment is expressed as rigid body. If you know appropriate injury criteria or threshold for femur fracture based on maximum axial, shear or bending forces, it may be good to see contact forces or joint reaction forces.
If you are interested in femur fracture due to bone deformation or strain/stress analysis, I'd like to suggest you to use finite element analysis instead of multi-body systems.

Best,
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