- 요추부 극돌기간 고정기구의 생체역학적 해석
- ㆍ 저자명
- 허순,박정홍,이성재,손권,Heo. Soon,Park. Jung-Hong,Lee. Sung-Jae,Son. Kwon
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 한국정밀공학회지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2006년|23권 3호|pp.195-202 (8 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국정밀공학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
The degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis (DLSS) is a disease inducing low back pain, leg pain, convulsion. numbness, and neurogenic claudication from compression of nerve root. Intervertebra fixation was reported to increase the degeneration of neighbor lesion after treatment. Recently, a new surgical technique of inserting a fixator between interspinous processes has been introduced. The purpose of this study is to design the interspinous process fixator with flexibility to complement the trouble of using fixator in DLSS. This study evaluated the existing fixator through the mechanical test and modified it using the finite element analysis (FEA). The evaluation was based on the displacement, stiffness and von-Mises stress obtained from the mechanical test and calculated from the FEA in the biomechanical loading condition. Effects of variation in length and thickness were investigated to design an optimal fixator. Three prototypes were manufactured using FEA results. Mechanical tests under the biomechanical loading condition were performed to select the best one from these three. The selected fixator increased flexiblity by 32.9%.