Increased tibiofemoral cartilage contact deformation in patients with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency

Samuel K. Van de Velde, Jeffrey Bingham, Ali Hosseini, Michal Kozánek, Louis E. DeFrate, Thomas J. Gill, Guoan Li

Arthritis & Rheumatism · 2009 · 138 citations · 42 references

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Abstract

ACL deficiency alters the in vivo cartilage contact biomechanics by shifting the contact location to smaller regions of thinner cartilage and by increasing the magnitude of the cartilage contact deformation.

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