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Hip fracture resulted from low-trauma accident fall is a complicated dynamics and impact process involving a number of biomechanical variables spanning over multiple length scales, ranging from body-level kinematics and kinetics to microscopic-level bone failure. To accurately identify patients of high fracture risk, it is necessary to understand how the involved variables contribute to hip fracture, and how they are considered in an assessment tool. In this chapter, the process of a low-trauma fall is broken down into a number of stages, mechanical principles and theories that are appropriate to deal with the mechanical phenomena in each of the stages are discussed.
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Luo, Y. (2017). Multilevel Biomechanics of Hip Fracture. In: Image-Based Multilevel Biomechanical Modeling for Fall-Induced Hip Fracture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51671-4_5
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