“…However, as suggested many years ago by Halvorson (Halvorson, Kelley, Thomas, Whitecloud and Cook 1994), and more recently by Dreischarf et al,(Dreischarf et al 2014) Goel et al (Goel et al 2012), Meijer et al (Meijer et al 2011), Chevalier et al (Chevalier and Zysset 2012), and Little et al (Little and Adam 2012), FEA based on a non-idealized series of models, or patient-specific models, could be of greater value.…”