Fracture Healing in Weight-bearing and Nonweight-bearing Bones
- 1 November 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 18 (11) , 766-770
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-197811000-00002
Abstract
Animal models demonstrated the differences in the process of fracture healing in weight-bearing and nonweight-bearing bones. Canine rib fractures regained strength properties rapidly; in canine radial fractures the return to normal stiffness levels was primary. The structural differences in fracture healing are probably functional and due more to biologic reorganization than to any measurable change in the biochemical components of the callus.Keywords
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