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E J Nightingale1, C P Allen, D H Sonnabend
1Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Division of Surgery, Edmund Blacket Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales, 2031 Randwick, Sydney, Australia.
Abstract:
The rotator cuff is loaded under static as well as dynamic conditions. Whilst the static properties of the rotator cuff muscle-tendon junctions have been reported, the dynamic mechanical behaviour has not. This study reports the dynamic mechanical properties with varying abduction angles in a human cadaver rotator cuff. No significant effect was found with varying the angle of testing or in the presence of a tear in the tendon. The supraspinatus was found to be the stiffest of the rotator cuff tendons followed by the subscapularis and infraspinatus.
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