compression or tension the stress distribution in the proximal femur压缩或张力近端股骨的应力分布.pdfVIP

BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMed Central Research Open Access Compression or tension? The stress distribution in the proximal femur KE Rudman, RM Aspden* and JR Meakin Address: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK Email: KE Rudman - k.rudman@abdn.ac.uk; RM Aspden* - r.aspden@abdn.ac.uk; JR Meakin - j.meakin@abdn.ac.uk * Corresponding author Published: 20 February 2006 Received: 28 October 2005 Accepted: 20 February 2006 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2006, 5:12 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-5-12 This article is available from: /content/5/1/12 © 2006 Rudman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Questions regarding the distribution of stress in the proximal human femur have never been adequately resolved. Traditionally, by considering the femur in isolation, it has been believed that the effect of body weight on the projecting neck and head places the superior aspect of the neck in tension. A minority view has proposed that this region is in compression because of muscular forces pulling the femur into the pelvis. Little has been done to study stress distributions in the proximal femur. We hypothesise that under physiological loading the majority of th