Summary
Bone fractures happen to 9.6 million Americans each year. A quarter of all lower-limb fractures are delayed healers and about 1 in 10 are nonunions—fractures that do not heal without another major surgery. The long-term goal of this US NSF-Swiss NSF (NSF-SNSF) project is to improve health outcomes for people with poorly healing fractures by developing computer simulation tools that can predict how bones heal over time. The simulations will use medical imaging to create digital twins – virtual models of real bones – that give insight into how an individual person’s healing may progress with tim
