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Adjustable Stiffness, External Fixator for the Rat Femur Osteotomy and Segmental Bone Defect Models
Published on: October 9, 2014
Comparative study of fracture gap motion in external fixation
T Kristiansen1, B Fleming, G Neale
1McClure Musculoskeletal Research Center, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA.
Clinical Biomechanics (Bristol, Avon)
|August 7, 2013
Abstract:
Different external fixators demonstrated different motion patterns at the fracture site in AP bending. This indicates that fracture gap motion patterns cannot be predicted from a single value of overall frame stiffness. This type of information may be useful in examining existing theories of fracture healing in response to different types of fracture gap motion.

