3D printing has emerged as a technology with which many medical processes and conditions can be studied virtually. Using a 3d printer, three dimensional models of particular organs of the body can be ...

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In today's installment of "How 3D Printing is Changing Healthcare Forever," a Massachusetts-based medical device company is forging new ground in knee replacement surgery. A combination of CT imaging, ...

Ahmet Erdemir knows that he'll never be able to build a virtual knee that perfectly mimics how a real human knee behaves. But with help from researchers all over the world, he and his team at the ...

Canada-based ArthroLense and Germany’s Waldemar Link have entered a collaboration, combining their respective technologies with the aim to improve knee surgery outcomes. Under the non-exclusive ...

New Rochelle, NY, April 7, 2016--A new, low-cost approach to building a knee model for studying knee pain and impaired mobility caused by abnormal movement of the patella uses a 3D printer to create a ...

Iowa State professors collaborated to design and fabricate a new 3D-printed dynamic knee anatomy model that helps athletic training students better visualize and understand the motion and inner ...

Yale neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd has studied neurons for decades. But until recently he’d never had a neuron he could grasp with his own two hands: Neurons are much too small. Now he’s got his very ...

Painful wear and tear on the knees often leads to knee replacement surgery. Standard implants come in different sizes, much like a pair of shoes, but a new 3D approach offers implants tailored to a ...

Knee, hip and spinal surgery is the focus of a major new research project focusing on 3D technology developed in South Australia. Under a new $2.4 million project, led by a $1 million Australian ...

In the months before her hip surgery at Aventura Hospital, Miriam Diaz of Hialeah was confined to a wheelchair. Caitlin Granfield World traveler Janet Bancroft has hiked, climbed and walked her way ...