Individual Differences in Women during Walking Affect Tibial Response to Load Carriage: the Importance of Individualized Musculoskeletal Finite-Element Models.

Subject-specific features can contribute to the susceptibility of an individual to stress fracture. Here, we incorporated tibial morphology and material properties into a standard musculoskeletal finite-element (M/FE) model and investigated how load carriage influences joint kinetics and tibial mechanics in women. We obtained the morphology and material properties of the tibia from computed tomogr...