[Mechanical properties of therapeutic sand upon femur and its finite element analysis].
OBJECTIVE
To study the mechanical properties of therapeutic sand for femur used in the Uygur medicine.


METHODS
Rabbits were randomly divided into the treatment group and the control group. Rabbits of both groups had arthritis. No treatment was carried out for the control group. Only sand therapy was offered for the treatment group. After sand therapy was completed, rabbits specimen were removed and grouped. The NJ-100B device was employed to measure the femur tensile and compressive strength and the analysis of finite element performed upon the experimental data.


RESULTS
At different sand temperatures below 55 degrees C, there was no significant difference in maximal stress and elastic modulus of tensile/compressive/bending of each femur sample.


CONCLUSIONS
Under different temperatures, the in vitro heating has no obvious effect upon the bio-mechanical performance of bone tissues. The static tensile strength of ex vivo femur shows no obvious decline. And the compressive strengthen improves somewhat over the normal group.
Department of Mechanics, College of Mechanical Engineering, Xinjiang University, Urumuqi 830000, China. youbo198362@163.com
Bo
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You
Dilina
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Mahemuti
Kahaer
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Kuerban
D000646:Ammotherapy; D000818:Animals; D019245:Compressive Strength; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D055119:Elastic Modulus; D005269:Femur / Q000502:physiology*; D020342:Finite Element Analysis; D008297:Male; D010003:Osteoarthritis / Q000628:therapy*; D011817:Rabbits; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013718:Tensile Strength