Biomechanical Study of Idiopathic Scoliosis

The spine is one of the most complex structures of the human skeleton. Spine develops several pathologies due to trauma or degenerative diseases, as scoliosis and sometimes is necessary to resort to a surgical correction. The finite element method (FEM) is a well-known and widely used numerical method to study spine structural behaviour. This paper presents a computer-aided methodology for creating a 3D model of the Idiopathic scoliosis using spinal vertebrae reconstructed from medical images. The presented analysis can help physicians to predict the outcome of intervention with different surgical procedures and be considered as a first step in creating a complete model owing to study the biomechanics of the surgical treatments of scoliosis pathology.