Introduction

Personalised Finite Element (FE) models from Computed Tomography (CT) data are superior to bone mineral density (BMD) in predicting proximal femoral strength in vitro [Cody, 1999]. However, results similar to BMD were obtained in vivo, in retrospective classification of generic prevalent fractures [Amin, 2011] and in prospective classification of femoral fractures [Orwoll, 2009]. The aim of this work is to test, in a case-control retrospective study, the ability of a different, validated FE modelling procedure [Schileo, 2008] to: (i) discriminate between groups of proximal femoral fractures and controls; (ii) individually classify fractures and controls.