The I-PREDICT 50th Percentile Male Warfighter Finite Element Model: Development and Validation of the Thoracolumbar Spine.

Military personnel are commonly at risk of lower back pain and thoracolumbar spine injury. Human volunteers and postmortem human subjects have been used to understand the scenarios where injury can occur and the tolerance of the warfighter to these loading regimes. Finite element human body models (HBMs) can accurately simulate the mechanics of the human body and are a useful tool for understanding injury.