sfgh orthopaedic trauma institute

San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)

Biomechanical Testing Facility - Overview

We partner with industry to conduct research in the following areas:

  • Musculoskeletal disease pathomechanics.
  • Development and evaluation of promising new orthopaedic technologies.
  • Creation of testing standards for crossproduct comparisons of existing medical devices.

Biomechanical Testing

  • Material property characterization
  • Multiaxial testing
  • Failure analysis
  • Internal stress analysis
  • Three-dimensional motion tracking
  • Medical Imaging
  • Cadaver Labs

We offer two types of contracts in order to meet your needs.

Service Contracts
Short-term projects that consist of existing IRC experimental protocols. We will execute the experiment and post-process the data on an expedited time schedule.

Research Agreements
Research Agreements Longer term projects with custom-designed experimental protocols. In addition to planning and executing the experiment, we will collaborate with you to interpret and publish the data.

We specialize in:

  • Comprehensive project planning.
  • Custom experimental and data analysis protocols.
  • Dissemination of results in the scientific community, e.g., journal manuscripts and conference abstracts.