Patent ID: 8831302

Claim:
A method of designing a prosthetic implant, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining three dimensional data corresponding to an existing or prototype orthopaedic implant or component thereof; (b) obtaining three dimensional data corresponding to a same type of bone to provide a population of bone data comprising multiple bones; (c) associating at least one of the multiple bones from the population with the three dimensional data corresponding to the existing or prototype orthopaedic implant or component thereof to establish a first virtual replacement having a first configuration; (d) taking the first virtual replacement through a simulated range of movement and recording data; (e) associating at least another one of the multiple bones from the population with the three dimensional data corresponding to the existing or prototype orthopaedic implant or component thereof to establish a second virtual replacement having a first configuration; (f) taking the second virtual replacement through a simulated range of movement and recording data; and (g) comparing the recorded data from the first virtual replacement range of motion to the second virtual replacement range of motion to qualitatively evaluate the an existing or prototype orthopaedic implant or component thereof.