title: The biomechanics of traumatically applied loads.
abstract: This analytic review of the traumatic forces acting on bone reveals the complexity of the biomechanics of physiologically and traumatically applied loads. There is still controversy as to the true nature of bony behavior and the forces influencing that behavior. The reason is that we are dealing with living heterogeneous tissue and not true static models. Basically, the following can be stated: that the bone probably has both plastic and viscoelastic characteristics, but probably more of the latter. In addition, although multiple forces act on bone, torsional force is probably present in most cases of trauma to some extent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Sciences, New York College of Podiatric Medicine, New York.
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authors.lastname: Glockenberg
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D013314:Stress, Mechanical