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In the first two contributions on functional anatomy I deduced that, in the structure of the supporting and motor apparatus, principles of construction are embodied which maintain the stressing of the tubular bone to the least possible degree. The static significance of the muscles was particularly explained. Some examples demonstrated that the muscles act as tension bands and hereby considerably reduce the high stressing which the tubular bone undergoes under the effect of the body weight and of contingent additional loads.
Z. Anat. Entwickl. Gesch. 115, 327–351 (1950).
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According to Hirsch, bending stressing in the sagittal plane tends to curve the tibia alternately in opposite directions (when the knee is flexed, forwards; when it is extended, backwards). This conception is erroneous. It results from the fact that Hirsch attributed a wrong direction to the muscle force in his analysis, that is the direction of the Achilles tendon. Hirsch also thinks that the cross section of the tibia is particularly favourably built for bending stressing in opposite directions. This conception is also erroneous, as will be briefly explained. Hirsch, H.: Die Mechanische Bedeutung der Schienbeinform. Berlin: Springer 1895.
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Pauwels, F. (1980). Significance of the Muscular Forces for the Regulation of the Stressing of the Tubular Bone During Movement of the Limb. In: Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67138-8_7
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