Critical Reviews™ in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

ISSN for PRINT: 0896-2960

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2005, Volume17

Issue 4

90 pages

DOI: 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.v17.i4

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Serge Van Sint Jan, PhD
Department of Anatomy (CP 619), Faculty of Medicine-Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 808 Lennik Street, 1070 Brussels, Belgium

Despite recent, important progress, current modeling environments of the musculoskeletal system do not succeed in daily clinical practice. The causes of this failure are multiple but can be summarized in one line: Today, modeling systems do not answer clinical needs and clinical constraints for a variety of reasons (lack of consensus on goals, lack of multidisciplinary communications, lack of effort and resource sharing, etc.). The author wishes to incite the biomedical community to organize and increase the clinical usefulness of results achieved in our field. This article describes the first steps of a discussion on data collection and data processing by proposing a modeling system that would be based on a detailed anatomical database of generic models, which can be customized using patient-specific data. Decision-making support should statistically analyze the final patient model to furnish probabilistic conclusions to clinical teams that can then take further action. The content of this article should then be discussed further to define the final clinical frame to develop through coordinated action organized at the international level.

DOI: 10.1615/CritRevPhysRehabilMed.v17.i4.10 Download article, 249-274 pages

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