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On the Modelling Effect of the Functional Adaptation of the Bone

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Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus

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Basically three factors are responsible for the modelling effect of functional adaptation of bone. They will be briefly analysed using the femur as an example:

  1. 1)

    The peculiarity of the mechanical stressing of the bone;

  2. 2)

    the reaction of the bony tissue to the magnitude of the mechanical stressing;

  3. 3)

    the influence of the structure of the bone, formed by cortex and medullary cavity, on the way it is stressed.

Z. Orthop. 139, 213–220 (1976)

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Pauwels, F. (1980). On the Modelling Effect of the Functional Adaptation of the Bone. In: Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67138-8_22

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