Low-load behaviour of the patellar tendon graft and its relevance to the biomechanics of the reconstructed knee

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 918-925

  Chandrashekar, Naveen ^b   Hashemi, Javad ^a,d   Slauterbeck, James ^c   Beynnon, Bruce D ^c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft initial tension; Graft properties; Patellar tendon; Toe region

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; BISMUTH; CURVES (ROAD); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); LIGAMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TENDONS; TISSUE;

(PL) PROPERTIES; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT (ACL) RECONSTRUCTION; GRAFT PROPERTIES; LINEAR ELASTICS; LINEAR MODELING; LOAD DEFORMATION; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY (MOE); PATELLAR TENDONS; STRESS STRAIN CURVE (SSC); TOE REGION;

LOADS (FORCES);

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; DONOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; KNEE FUNCTION; MALE; PATELLA TENDON; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENDON GRAFT; TENSION; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATELLAR LIGAMENT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 46749131416     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2008.03.070     Document Type: Article

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