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  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1990

Biomechanics of Diarthrodial Joints

Volume I

Editors:

  1. Anthony Ratcliffe

    1. Orthopaedic Research Laboratory Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, USA

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  2. Savio L-Y. Woo

    1. Divisions of Orthopaedics, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, USA

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  3. Van C. Mow

    1. Orthopaedic Research Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, USA

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Ligaments, Tendons, and Menisci

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. The Biology of Tendons and Ligaments

      • C. B. Frank, D. A. Hart
      Pages 39-62

    4. Biomechanics and Morphology of the Medial Collateral and Anterior Cruciate Ligaments

      • S. L-Y. Woo, J. A. Weiss, D. A. MacKenna
      Pages 63-104

    6. New Insights Into Load Bearing Functions of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament

      • K. L. Markolf, J. F. Gorek, J. M. Kabo, M. S. Shapiro, G. A. M. Finerman
      Pages 155-175

    7. Structure and Biology of the Knee Meniscus

      • S. P. Arnoczky
      Pages 177-190

    8. Structure and Function of the Meniscus: Basic and Clinical Implications

      • M. A. Kelly, D. C. Fithian, K. Y. Chern, V. C. Mow
      Pages 191-211

  3. Cartilage Biomechanics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. Biphasic and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Theories for Hydrated Soft Tissues

      • V. C. Mow, J. S. Hou, J. M. Owens, A. Ratcliffe
      Pages 215-260

    3. Physicochemical and Bioelectrical Determinants of Cartilage Material Properties

      • E. H. Frank, A. J. Grodzinsky, S. L. Phillips, P. E. Grimshaw
      Pages 261-282

    7. Water Content and Solute Diffusion Properties in Articular Cartilage

      • P. A. Torzilli, E. Askari, J. T. Jenkins
      Pages 363-390

    8. Biomechanical Properties of Healing Cartilage

      • M. K. Kwan, S. L-Y. Woo
      Pages 391-399

    10. Characteristics of Joint Loading as it Applies to Osteoarthrosis

      • E. L. Radin, D. B. Burr, D. Fyhrie, T. D. Brown, R. D. Boyd
      Pages 437-451
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Historical folklore indicates that Asklepios (circa 900 BC), the fir~t western doctor of ancient Greece, treated many patients with rheumatic diseases of 1 joints ,2. Later, Hippocrates (circa 400 BC), who claimed to have learned from Asklepios, used the term arthritis in reference to joint diseases: "When the disease of arthritis strikes, acute inflammation and pain attacks the joints of the body ... ". Indeed, arthritic joint disease dates much farther back into antiquity than Asklepios. Many modern anthropologists have noted degenerative joint disease in the fossils of Neanderthal man (archanthropus europeus petraloniensis) and even in those of dinosaurs. More recent scientific studies on joints date back to the work of the great English anatomist Hunter who wrote "The Structure and Diseases of Articular Cartilage" in the Philosophical Transactions of London in 1743. The notion that osteoarthritis results from the wearing away of cartilage was copiously documented by the histological observations of the German physician Ecker in 1843. This idea was further supported by Pommer (1927) who felt that mechanical stresses played important roles in the initiation and propagation of cartilage lesions leading to osteoarthritis. This same conclusion was reached by the assembled distinguished experts at a National Institutes of Health Workshop 3 held in 1986 .
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Orthopaedic Research Laboratory Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, USA

    Anthony Ratcliffe

  • Divisions of Orthopaedics, University of California, San Diego La Jolla, USA

    Savio L-Y. Woo

  • Orthopaedic Research Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Van C. Mow

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