A novel in vivo joint loading system to investigate the effect of daily mechanical load on a healing anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Stasiak, Mark ^a,b   Imhauser, Carl ^a   Packer, Jonathan ^a   Bedi, Asheesh ^a   Brophy, Robert ^a   Kovacevic, David ^a   Jackson, Kent ^a   Deng, Xiang Hua ^a   Rodeo, Scott ^a   Torzilli, Peter ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

ACL; Bone; Cyclic strain; Healing; In vivo; Mechanical load; Tendon

Indexed keywords

A-COEFFICIENT; ACL RECONSTRUCTION; ANTERIOR-CRUCIATE-LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; AVERAGE SYSTEM; BEST FIT; BONE HEALING; BONE RECONSTRUCTION; CORRECTION FACTORS; CYCLIC STRAIN; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; HEALING; HEALING PROCESS; IN-VIVO; JOINT LOADING; KNEE JOINT; LOADING PROTOCOLS; LOCAL DISPLACEMENT; MECHANICAL LOADS; MECHANICAL STIMULUS; PILOT STUDIES; RAT MODEL; RESULTANT FORCES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SYSTEM USE; TRACKING SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LIGAMENTS; LOADS (FORCES); REPAIR; TENDONS;

BONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; IN VIVO STUDY; KINEMATICS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; RAT; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENODESIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 77955160857     PISSN: 19326181     EISSN: 1932619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001158     Document Type: Article

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