Table 5 Comparison of the femoral vertical displacement under compressive loads between the predicted results in this study and published experimental and computational studies.

From: Biomechanical effects of medial osteoarthritis progression and UKA on knee lateral compartment using fibril-reinforced biphasic material in finite element study

Experimental and Computational studies

Femoral vertical displacement (mm)

1000 N

1500 N

Experimental

Walker and Erkman47

0.65

0.81

Kurosawa et al.48

0.87 ± 0.17

1.04 ± 0.23

Shrive et al.49

1.28

1.56

Computational

Meng et al.29

1.02

1.17

This study

1.11

1.22

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