Patent ID: 7556045
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A bone safety evaluation method, said method comprising: determining a patient's activities comprising assembling a list of one or more activities performed by the patient, physical symptoms data, bone mineral density, height and weight; determining the patient's safe functional motion by evaluating the patient's performance of a group of pre-determined tasks; inputting the patient's physical symptoms data, the patient's bone mineral density, and the patient's height and weight into an input device of a computer system; utilizing computer software on the computer system to calculate a fracture risk of a region of interest of the patient for one or more task within said group of pre-determined tasks, wherein the fracture risk of the region of interest is calculated from a ratio of an actual force in the region of interest to a theoretical failure force in the region of interest, and the fracture risk is utilized to form a functional risk for fracture index as a component of the one or more computer generated feedback reports, the actual force being calculated by the following formula: and the theoretical failure force being calculated by the following formula: wherein: transforming data comprising the patient's safe functional motion alone or in combination with one or more of (i) the patient's activities, (ii) the patient's physical symptoms data, (iii) the patient's bone mineral density, height and weight, and (iv) the calculated fracture risk into one or more computer generated feedback reports via the computer software.