Grant: Operating Grant

This project studies fundamental mechanisms of hip fracture with the goal of better predicting hip fracture, especially a second hip fracture. At the newly established Center for Hip Health and Mobility, the research team with expertise in engineering, bone biology, medical imaging, and orthopaedic surgery will work together to answer one question: How does osteoporosis related structural changes make a hip susceptible to fracture? By combining both macroscopic and microscopic fracture analyses with high resolution CT imaging of the fracture femoral components from patients, we will be able to understand the material and structural nature of hip fragility. More importantly, we will provide more accurate risk prediction of a secondary hip fracture, thus bringing immediate impact to the patient group with primary hip fracture.