Effects of mobilization on tensile strength of partial tendon lacerations.
Fifty-percent-lacerated unrepaired chicken tendons were studied. Free mobility resulted in tensile strength significantly increased over immobility when the free mobility was begun on the day of wounding or after 28 days of immobility.
D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002645:Chickens; D006614:Hindlimb; D007103:Immobilization; D013708:Tendon Injuries / Q000628:therapy*; D014034:Toes