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Measurement of Healthy and Injured Triceps Surae Morphology
Published on: October 27, 2023
Boundary conditions at the tendon-bone interface
P J Hughes1, R O N Evans, B Miller
1Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales, High Street, 2031 Randwick, Sydney, Australia.
Abstract:
The reconstruction of a tendon-bone interface, as in rotator-cuff repairs, remains a challenging surgical problem. There is however, little data to show what effect joint position or repair loading under physiological conditions have on the repaired tendon-bone interface. A change in the amount of contact area or load at the tendon-bone interface may influence healing. In this study we investigated the effect of limb position and boundary conditions on the tendon-bone interface in an in vitro rabbit tendon-bone repair model using both unlinked and linked suture repairs.
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