Biomechanics of Diarthrodial Joints: Volume IVan C. Mow, Anthony Ratcliffe, Savio L-Y. Woo Historical folklore indicates that Asklepios (circa 900 BC), the fir~t western doctor of ancient Greece, treated many patients with rheumatic diseases of 1 joints ,2. Later, Hippocrates (circa 400 BC), who claimed to have learned from Asklepios, used the term arthritis in reference to joint diseases: "When the disease of arthritis strikes, acute inflammation and pain attacks the joints of the body ... ". Indeed, arthritic joint disease dates much farther back into antiquity than Asklepios. Many modern anthropologists have noted degenerative joint disease in the fossils of Neanderthal man (archanthropus europeus petraloniensis) and even in those of dinosaurs. More recent scientific studies on joints date back to the work of the great English anatomist Hunter who wrote "The Structure and Diseases of Articular Cartilage" in the Philosophical Transactions of London in 1743. The notion that osteoarthritis results from the wearing away of cartilage was copiously documented by the histological observations of the German physician Ecker in 1843. This idea was further supported by Pommer (1927) who felt that mechanical stresses played important roles in the initiation and propagation of cartilage lesions leading to osteoarthritis. This same conclusion was reached by the assembled distinguished experts at a National Institutes of Health Workshop 3 held in 1986 . |
Contents
Structure and Function of Normal and Healing Tendons | 3 |
Multiaxial StructureProperty Relations in Trabecular Bone | 18 |
Squeeze Film Lubrication for Articular Cartilage with | 30 |
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Biomechanics of Diarthrodial Joints: Volume I, Volume 1 Van C. Mow,Anthony Ratcliffe,Savio L-Y. Woo Limited preview - 2012 |
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ACL force Akeson WH allografts anterior cruciate ligament Arnoczky articular cartilage behavior Biochem Biomech biomechanical biphasic Bone Joint Surg bovine Butler DL canine cells chondroitin sulfate Clin Orthop coefficient collagen collagen fibers compression concentration connective tissue cruciate ligament curve decrease deformation effects equation experimental extracellular matrix fiber bundles Figure flexion flexion angle fluid FMTC function graft Grodzinsky Grood Hardingham healing immobilization increased injury interactions interstitial fluid intervertebral disc knee flexion knee joint knee ligaments ligament force ligament substance linear Maroudas material properties measured mechanical properties medial collateral ligament medial meniscus meniscectomy modulus molecules monomers Mow VC Muir NaCl normal Noyes Orthop Res Soc Orthopaedic osteoarthritis patellar tendon permeability phase posterior proteoglycan proteoglycan aggregate proteoglycan solutions quadriceps rabbit repair rotation soft tissues solid matrix specimen stiffness strain stress relaxation stress-strain swelling tendons and ligaments tension tibial torque Trans Orthop Res valgus Viidik viscoelastic Woo SL-Y