Determination of contact position of fractured bones and the applied force in external fixator applications

At the beginning of the operation, the stretching property of the muscles of the broken limb of the patient, who is under anesthesia, is learnt and in the continuation of the same process, the moment when the bones start touching each other and the force applied by them on each other are determined by using loadcells and encoders. Consequently, a method that aligns the fractured bones being independent from personal properties of the patient such as gender and age has been developed.