The role and mechanical behavior of the connective tissue in tendon sliding.
After carrying out 215 in-vivo dissections, 65 of which were video-recorded, the authors propose that the current representation of the notion of the tendon sliding is incorrect. It is suggested that tendon sliding is explained by the existence of a mechanical adaptable multimicrovacuolar and fibrillar tissue. This tissue enables complete sliding without any dynamic influence on the surrounding tissues. The new theory is based on a polyhedric fibrillar framework, apparently chaotic and complex, subtending the microvacuolar gel, a concept that is to be found everywhere in the human body.
Guimberteau
J-C
JC
Institut aquitain de la main, 56, allée des Tulipes, 33600 Bordeaux-Pessac, France. adf.guimberteau@wanadoo.fr
Delage
J-P
JP
Wong
J
J
D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013710:Tendons / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*