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The application of mechanical principles to orthopaedics encounters now as before huge difficulties because, in general, the basic laws of statics and the theory of elasticity are not familiar to doctors. This is illustrated by the fact that even the concepts of loading and stressing are not clear. This explains the conception going back to Rauber and Grunewald 1 that the stressing that the tubular bone undergoes from body weight is strongly increased by the muscular forces. This is an error. It is right that the loading, the compressive force acting on the bone, is increased by the tension of the muscles. But the stressing of the tubular bone is considerably reduced by the muscular forces because these act as tension bands against the body weight.
For the 70th anniversary of Professor Dr. Bürkle de la Camp. Verh. der Deutschen Orthopädischen Gesellschaft. 52. Kongreß 1965
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“The two types of forces act in the same way; the total stressing results from their summation and, since the muscular force is several times greater than the load of the trunk, the former is decisive”. (Grunewald, J.: Die Beanspruchung der langen Röhrenknochen des Menschen, Z. orthop. Chir., 59, 271(1919).
Pauwels, Fr.: Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur funktionellen Anatomie des Bewegungsapparates, p. 265–288. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 1965. See chapter 14 of the present book.
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Pauwels, F. (1980). The Significance of a Tension Band for the Stressing of the Tubular Bone with Application to Compression Osteosynthesis. In: Biomechanics of the Locomotor Apparatus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67138-8_16
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