.... Assoc. Editor: Joel D. Stitzel. 23 01 2014 09 05 2014 14 05 2014 Femur fracture at the tip of a total hip replacement (THR), commonly known as Vancouver B1 fracture, is mainly treated using rigid metallic bone plates which may result in “stress shielding” leading to bone...

... to the main phase of a study. However, no prior studies have actually measured these effects for whole bone of any kind. The aim of this study, therefore, was to quantify these effects for whole bones. Fourteen matched pairs of fresh-frozen intact cadaveric canine femurs were sinusoidally loaded in 4-point...

...Rad Zdero; Alison J. McConnell; Christopher Peskun; Khalid A. Syed; Emil H. Schemitsch The mechanical behavior of human femurs has been described in the literature with regard to torsion and tension but only as independent measurements. However, in this study, human femurs were subjected to torsion...

... notching of the femoral neck during the procedure may predispose it to fracture. We examined the effect of neck notching on the strength of the proximal femur. Six composite femurs were prepared without a superior femoral neck notch, six were prepared in an inferiorly translated position to create a 2 mm...

... hip fractures femur protective devices/standards equipment failure analysis/methods/standards Hip fractures are an important worldwide public health issue as they are common, costly, and cause a substantial decline in the quality of life for their sufferers. In Canada alone...

... tendon graft enclosed within the tibial and femoral tunnels to define the axes of these tunnels. Markers were injected into the tibia, femur, and graft in six cadaveric legs the knees of which were reconstructed with single-loop tibialis grafts. The axes of the tunnels were defined by marker pairs...

... cortical bone, and the more occasional problems associated with a thin cortex and complex cortical topology. In so doing, we present empirical data about ultrasonic velocities in cortical bone from the human mandible, the human femur, and aluminum phantoms, in order to determine the impact of specimen...