In extension, construct stiffness was found significantly higher for the Frame technique.
Complications include stiffness, extension weakness, and patellofemoral osteoarthritis.
In order capture bolt extension and the stiffness of the clamped region, a closed form approach is used.
Lower torques for a given tendinous extension would cause stiffness to be underestimated.
The stiffness in extension (at the beginning of the extension test) was significantly higher for the Frame-group (281 ± 25 N/mm) compared to the LCP-group (161 ± 21 N/mm) (P = 0.01; Fig. 4).
Then, fatigue life extension ratio and flexural stiffness recovery of the beams were used to show their healing effect.
Compared to the LCP constructs, the "Frame" technique revealed significant higher construct stiffness in extension of the arm (P = 0.01).
To test to what extent the same results were obtained for NZ magnitude and NZ stiffness from flexion-extension and extension-flexion curves, the data were compared by means of paired t-tests and in addition the intra-class correlation (ICC) between these observations was determined.
Pseudo Quasi-Homogeneous (ASB0DF) laminates are introduced as an important laminate sub-set, since such laminates have concomitant orthotropic properties, i.e. matching orthotropic or isotropic stiffnesses in extension and bending, from which the isolated effects of Bending-Twisting coupling can be studied.
The NZ magnitude according to the double sigmoid function was not correlated with hysteresis (r = -0.194; p = 0.472), The NZ stiffness determined in extension-flexion and flexion-extension averaged 0.138 (SD 0.060) and 0.133 (SD 0.067) Nm/degree, respectively, without a systematic difference (p = 0.394) and an ICC of 0.971, indicating good correspondence.
