In-vivo Anterior Cruciate Ligament Elongation in Response to Axial Tibial Loads

Background: The knowledge of in vivo anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deformation is fundamental for understanding ACL injury mechanisms and for improving surgical reconstruction of the injured ACL. This study investigated the relative elongation of the ACL when the knee is subject to no load (<...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hosseini, Ali, Gill, Thomas J., Li, Guoan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Springer Japan 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49480