Leeds University is at the forefront of research into implant technology and that research is just about to take a big leap forward in the spinal injuries sphere. A new laboratory, the Frank Parkinson tissue engineering laboratory, has just opened at Leeds University. It contains what is believed to be the world’s first simulator capable…
Feb 11, 2009 Following the successful introduction of the spinal implant wear simulator, their first fully electro-mechanical simulator, Prosim have now committed to a development path that will bring about the introduction of fully electro-mechanical wear simulators for the testing of knee and hip implants. Such systems will also be made available for the testing…
Feb 11, 2009 In order to capitalise on the potential of the Chinese orthopaedic market and its growing requirement for testing equipment to ensure that international testing standards are upheld, Prosim has appointed Gaitech. The Prosim business has been built on the back of its relationship with Professor John Fisher’s team at Leeds University, over…
Feb 11, 2012 Imagine a wear simulator that can be used for the wear testing of hip, knee and spinal implants up to and beyond their respective ISO standards; that can deliver micro-separation and deep knee bending; that can be used for the wear testing of other joints such as ankles, fingers, shoulders, etc; and…
Feb 11, 2012 With the completion of the design and development of the Single Station Universal Joint Wear Simulator, Simulation Solutions is now able to offer a complete portfolio of electromechanical wear and friction simulators for the extensive wear testing of orthopaedic implants. The phased replacement of the previous range of pneumatic wear simulators with…
The Prosim Pin-On-Plate Tribometer is a multi-station machine designed for the reliable and repeatable study of the wear of bearing surface materials, providing designers and developers of orthopaedic implants with a cost-effective and accurate means of generating wear of specific bearing surface combinations, under different conditions. https://www.prosim.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Machine-Video-1.mp4 The Pin-On-Plate Tribometer All controlled axes of the…
The Prosim Universal Joint Simulator originates from the programme of work done in the Life Long Joint FP7 Project, which sought to push the mechanical envelope of adverse wear testing of hip implants much further than it had gone before, drawing on the most up-to-date biomechanical data available. The Hip Implant Wear Simulator Using the…
The design of a spine simulator able to accurately test both cervical and lumbar total intervertebral disc replacements (TDRs hereafter) presents significant challenges, as the two TDRs are exposed to very different axial loads, by more than a factor of 10. The Spine Wear Simulator The Prosim Spine Wear Simulator was designed and developed with…
The mobility of the knee joint presents significant problems for effective and rigorous in-vivo testing. Working together with Biomet, the Prosim Knee Wear Simulator (Independent Stations) was designed and developed to give full force and displacement control for individual stations, to enable each one to run autonomously. Knee Wear Simulator The key objectives when developing…
Designed and developed in response to the growing demand for ever more aggressive adverse testing hip implants. The Hip Implant Wear Simulator Working together with CRITT-MDTR, the independent French wear testing house, the Prosim Hip Wear Simulator was developed with a number of key objectives in mind: Design and build a simulator that fully meets…
