Fracture healing is a critically important clinical event for fracture patients and for clinicians
who take care of them. The clinical evaluation of fracture healing is based on both …

The most significant predictors of reoperation following operative management of fractures
are the presence of a third degree open fracture, remaining fracture gaps and a transverse …

Objectives: Locked plating constructs may be too stiff to reliably promote secondary bone
healing. This study used a novel imaging technique to quantify periosteal callus formation of …

Background: Locked bridge plating relies on secondary bone healing, which requires
interfragmentary motion for callus formation. This study evaluated healing of fractures …

Methods Five locked-plate constructs were applied to bridge a 10-mm-gap osteotomy site in
femoral diaphysis surrogates to characterize their stiffness and the resulting interfragmentary …

Background: Mechanotransduction is theorized to influence fracture-healing, but optimal
fracture-site motion is poorly defined. We hypothesized that three-dimensional (3-D) fracture …

Mechanical boundary conditions are well known to influence the regeneration of bone and
mechanobiology is the study of how mechanical or physical stimuli regulate biological …

STABILIZATION OF DISTAL FEMUR FRACTURES WITH INTRAMEDULLARY NAILS AND
LOCKING PLATES: DIFFERENCES IN CALLUS FORMATION - PMC Back to Top Skip to main …

Background Fracture healing is affected by the type and the magnitude of movements at the
fracture site. Mechanical conditions will be a function of the type of fracture management, the …

Objectives: Intramedullary nails with special lag screw designs may provide improved
mechanical performance and alleviate clinical problems. We hypothesize that the proximal …