The relationship between loading conditions and fracture patterns of the proximal femur

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 575-578

  Yang, K H ^a   Shen, K L ^a   Demetropoulos, C K ^a   King, A I ^a   Kolodziej, P ^b   Levine, R S ^b   Fitzgerald, R H ^b  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; FRACTURE; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LOADS (FORCES); MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

FRACTURE PATTERNS; MUSCULAR CONTRACTION; PROXIMAL FEMUR;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SIMULATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0030298028     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2796045     Document Type: Article

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