The goal of a recent article published in Biomedical Engineering Letters was to provide an overview of the fracture healing process of long bones – a review of work that proposed appropriate physical parameters for the assessment of healing. The authors highlighted some recent work that reported on the development of non-radiative technique for healing assessment. Furthermore, an overview of the development and monitoring of osseointegration for trans-femoral osseointegrated implant was presented.

It was reported that the state of healing of a fractured long bone and the stability of osseointegrated implants can be seen as engineering structural components where the mechanical properties are restored to facilitate their desired function. This article described non-radiative techniques that are useful for healing assessment and the stability assessment of osseointegrated implants.

Moreover, the achievement of non-radiative quantitative assessment methodologies to determine the state of healing of fractured long bones and to assess the stability of osseointegrated implant will shorten the patients rehabilitation time, allowing earlier mobility and return to normal activities.

Source: Biomedical Engineering Letters. 2019 Jul 26;10(1):63-81. doi: 10.1007/s13534-019-00120-0.