CAPABILITY | BIOMECHANICS

Biomechanical Expertise for Clinical Technologies

BMES medical device evaluation

Patient-centric analysis for clinical technology development

Exponent provides top-tier multidisciplinary consulting for evaluating medical devices and other clinical technologies, helping you navigate regulatory requirements, evaluate injury potential, and understand challenges through next-gen modeling and real-world dynamic analysis.

How can Exponent's multidisciplinary expertise enhance your clinical technology design and development and help improve patient outcomes?

Exponent helps you develop clinical and medical technologies that address the needs of broad demographics across a range of use cases to support optimizing individual user and health outcomes. Leveraging a multidisciplinary approach, our biomechanical engineers work closely with experts in biomedical engineering and polymer science and materials chemistry to help you better understand a wide array of medical devices — from novel stents and prosthetic implants to digital health technologies and wearables.

Suboptimal biomechanical engineering can adversely impact loading on the bodies of patients and users, leading to wear, potential injury, and other risks. Our multidisciplinary analysis of clinical technologies can help you understand safety challenges, optimize performance, and design the best interface to accommodate many types of users and demographics.

Exponent's highly experienced biomechanical engineers deliver valuable insights throughout the clinical technology lifecycle, including modeling and real-world dynamic analysis, injury potential evaluations, data collection, and regulatory compliance support. Our differentiated multidisciplinary approach provides a one-stop shop supporting the continuum of testing and analysis needed to meet the stringent requirements for clinical technology development of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and global regulatory agencies.

Services

For 50+ years, we’ve thrived on solving unstructured problems that require bespoke solutions. Some of our services include:

• Biomechanical performance analysis

• Physiological ground truth comparisons

• User-specific characterization (anthropometry, tissue properties)

• Large-scale participant studies

• Human body modeling (physical modeling, simulation, cadaver testing)

• Human injury potential evaluation and risk assessments

• Data acquisition, contextualization through data-driven insights

• Scalable research and analysis (processing and analysis tools)

• Validation in a box/real-world validation (remote validations)

• Methodologies for collecting data (tools)

Our Capabilities Are Unparalleled

With expertise in over 90 disciplines and hundreds of capabilities, tools, and methodologies — we get to the root of even the most complex challenges and give you the objective answers you need.

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Biomechanical Expertise for Product Evaluations

Biomechanical risk evaluation for products ranging from consumer and recreational products to industrial equipment and vehicles.

Test subject in Exponent UX research laboratory as research examine the effects of distractions during cell phone use.

Biomechanical Engineering Support for Product Design & Development

Biomechanics product design analysis for a range of applications — from apparel to consumer products to wearable sensors to vehicles.

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Biomechanical Injury Investigations & Analysis

Skilled biomechanical analysis to help determine the cause of specific injuries and communicate results in a relevant and clear context.

Exponent biomechanical engineers study human movement data in a UX lab setting

Biomechanical Testing & Modeling

Uncover the root cause of injuries with robust and advanced biomechanical analysis.