Mechanobiology of Fracture Healing

This book offers a summary of research on the biomechanics of fracture fixation and mechanobiology of fracture healing. The author, a known expert, provides an overview of the state of art, his own research together with that of his co-workers and collaborators; he describes the ideas and findings from the beginning of this research field in the 1960s up to the clinical consequences and applications of today. 

The book discusses the mechanobiology of fracture healing, illustrates the numerical methods that simulate fracture healing processes, and depicts specific research methods of experimental studies. Finally, it provides conclusions for the improvement of fracture treatment that will be of use in clinical applications nowadays. 

This book will be a valuable resource of knowledge for students and scientists in the field of bioengineering, experimental biology, and biomechanics, helping them to identify the correct conditions and analysis for their respective research and receive an understanding of the research field from its beginning until today. For experimental and clinical surgeons active in the field of fracture healing, this book will provide a useful historical overview over this translational research field.

• biomechanics
• mechanical force
• fracture healing process
• biological healing process
• treatment of fractures
• fracture fixation
• mechanical stability of fracture fixation
• factors affecting the fracture healing process
• interfragmentary movement
• experimental fracture fixation
• bone formation
• bone healing
• bone surgery
• medical devices

• Inst. f. Unfallchirurgische Forschung und Biomechanik, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany

  Lutz E. Claes

Lutz Claes, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Research in Trauma Surgery and Biomechanics, University of Ulm, Germany.