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Short Survey of the Mechanical Stressing of Bone and Its Significance for Functional Adaptation

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Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus

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The human skeleton has to resist forces developed by the weight of the body and the pull of muscles and ligaments. Moreover, it constitutes the passive part of the locomotor apparatus. Therefore, these forces are transmitted from bone to bone by means of the joints (Fig. 1 a-c). This is the reason why bone cannot support a single force (Fig. 1 b), either the body weight or one muscular Force, an old concept on which the theory of varus and valgus muscular forces is based.

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    Professor Friedrich Pauwels Dr. med., Dr. med. h. c., Dr. Ing. E. h. (Orthopaedic surgeon)

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Pauwels, F. (1980). Short Survey of the Mechanical Stressing of Bone and Its Significance for Functional Adaptation. In: Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67138-8_19

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