["Spontaneous" fracture of femur following damage to the iliotibial tract].
Gravity apart, muscles act on the skeleton in balancing the usually excentric weight. This raises the load of the skeletal element but reduces the flexion strain. Loss of the traction-effect of a muscle or its aponeurosis produces overloading of the bone involved and may lead to fracture. This theortetical concept is supported by a clinical case of fracture of the femur which occurred a long time after the iliotibial tract had been eliminated.
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000503:physiopathology; D005269:Femur / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009129:Muscle Tonus; D013848:Thigh
"Spontanfraktur" des Femur nach Läsion des Tractus iliotibialis