title: The biomechanical responses to tension in a peripheral nerve.
abstract: The biomechanical adjustments rat sciatic nerves make to tension were studied 7 weeks after experimental nerve repair. Nerve tissue adjusts to tension by increasing its compliance if stretched within its physiological limits. Anatomical changes observed in the nerve tissue 7 weeks after stretching apparently accounts for the nerves extensibility, a biomechanical adjustment that helps preserve nerve continuity during the joint extension phase of extremity rehabilitation.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002921:Cicatrix / Q000601:surgery; D003187:Compliance; D004548:Elasticity; D006801:Humans; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery; D013314:Stress, Mechanical