Effect of immediate and delayed high-strain loading on tendon-to-bone healing after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 770-777

  Packer, Jonathan D ^a   Bedi, Asheesh ^b   Fox, Alice J ^c   Gasinu, Selom ^c   Imhauser, Carl W ^c   Stasiak, Mark ^c   Deng, Xiang Hua ^c   Rodeo, Scott A ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURE HEALING; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TENDON TO BONE HEALING; TRABECULAR BONE; TREND STUDY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; BONE AND BONES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HINDLIMB; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENDONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84900300585     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.01354     Document Type: Article

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