Simultaneous quantitation of knee ligament forces

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Title Simultaneous quantitation of knee ligament forces
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Engineering
Department Biomedical Engineering
Author France, Edward Paul
Date 1980-06
Description An apparatus and experimental technique have been developed which allow the simultaneous quantitation of human cadaver knee ligament forces with the knee in various positions and subjected to various loads. The methodology permits all the major ligaments of the knee to be kept intact, thus preserving much of their normal relative load-bearing function. A novel measurement technique was employed for ligament force measurement. Strain gauges were placed at the ligamentous insertions and origins either on cortical bone or the cancellous/cortical transition. Gauge output was subsequently calibrated quantitatively by cutting the ligaments and subjecting them to known loads. The gauging technique was thermally stable, and the method as a whole yielded reproducible relative ligament force data when knee positions and loads were repeated for a given knee specimen. Three fresh human cadaver knee specimens have been subjected to testing thus far with gauges at six ligamentous sites. Initial evaluation of the data indicate that ligamentous loading patterns were quite different from those reported in the literature as determined by other methods.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Physiology; Articular
Subject MESH Knee Joint; Ligaments
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Simultaneous quantitation of knee ligament forces." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Simultaneous quantitation of knee ligament forces." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. QM 5.5 1980 F73.
Rights Management © Edward Paul France
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier undthes,211994
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship Zimmer USA.
ARK ark:/87278/s6542qct
Setname ir_etd
ID 190954
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6542qct
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