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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Biomechanical properties (mean ± SD) for subcritical and critical defects

From: Structural and biomechanical responses of osseous healing: a novel murine nonunion model

 

Rotation at yield (rad/mm)

Rotation at failure (rad/mm)

Energy to failure (N-rad/mm)

Normal

0.017 ± 0.002

0.025 ± 0.003

0.413 ± 0.04

Sham

0.02 ± 0.003

0.027 ± 0.004

0.492 ± 0.17

Subcritical

0.016 ± 0.004

0.021 ± 0.004

0.223 ± 0.14

Critical

0.002 ± 0.005*

0.003 ± 0.01*

0.022 ± 0.07*

  1. * Values significantly different from normal (p < 0.05)