Biomechanical testing of an anatomically contoured fixation plate for the tibia.
Simple bending and torsion and quasi-static physiological loading tests on two commonly used plating designs for internal fixation of the tibia were conducted and compared with a new design of anatomically shaped fixation plate. These simple static tests indicate that the new contoured plating system is mechanically more rigid under these test conditions than the conventional plating methods.
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D001860:Bone Plates; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000601:surgery*