The medially plated femur is a much stiffer construct and deforms less than the laterally plated femur as shown in Fig. 4.
The locking nail implant provided a significantly stiffer construct to valgus, extension, and flexion cantilever bending loads below the failure threshold.
Ideal stiffness may be significantly less than that achieved with these locked constructs, and overly stiff constructs may lead to impaired fracture healing and stress concentration at the ends of the plate.
Ideal stiffness may be significantly less than that achieved with these locked constructs, and overly stiff constructs may lead to impaired fracture healing and stress concentration at the ends of the plate[ 4, 6].
The medial plate, conversely, acts like a buttress on axial loading, resulting in a stiffer stronger construct.
For such facilities floors are massive but stiff, usually constructed with concrete, generally have first mode natural frequencies above 10 Hz and are typically classed as 'high-frequency floors'.
We hypothesise that decreasing lateral IPD will result in biomechanically stiffer constructs and that addition of an anterior plate will increase the stiffness of the construct and mitigate the potential risk for inter-device fracture.
However, the results of this study indicate that plate fixations are significantly stiffer constructs as compared to staple fixations when loaded in the ventrodorsal and right-to-left lateral planes.
With this system one can reproduce, at least in principle, any desired profile in the "stiff" configuration, and construct free form foldable surfaces of any shape.
The key findings of the present study were the following: (1) the stiffest bone-implant construct was found to be the iBalance implant followed by the Contour Lock plate.
