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Synovial Inflammation in Patients with Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-08)
Much of the work aimed at elucidating the pathogenesis of osteonecrosis (ON) of the femoral head has focused on bone blood supply, with little attention to the surrounding synovial tissue (ST). We hypothesized that patients ...
Rotator Cuff Tendinosis in an Animal Model: Role of Extrinsic and Overuse Factors
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Biomedical Engineering Society ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-09)
The rat shoulder animal model has been used previously to study the role of intrinsic injury (modeled as an acute insult to the tendon), extrinsic injury (modeled as external subacromial impingement), and overuse factors ...
Applying Lean Techniques to Improve the Patient Scheduling Process
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-05)
A patient's access to healthcare resources often begins with scheduling an appointment with a medical doctor or other provider. An inefficient scheduling system leads to unnecessary delays in providing care for patients ...
Chondrocyte Differentiation is Modulated by Frequency and Duration of Cyclic Compressive Loading
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Biomedical Engineering Society ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2001-06)
As part of a program of research aimed at determining the role of mechanical forces in connective tissue differentiation, we have developed a model for investigating the effects of dynamic compressive loading on chondrocyte ...
Ultrasonography of the annular ligament partial tear and recurrent “pulled elbow”
(Springer-Verlag, 2004-12)
A 2-year-old boy had multiple episodes of radial head subluxation, recurrent “pulled elbow.” On initial ultrasonography, there was subluxation of the radial head in relation to the capitellum, and the annular ligament was ...
Novel explant model to study mechanotransduction and cell–cell communication
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-08)
To understand in situ behavior of osteocytes, we characterized a model of osteocytes in their native bone matrix and demonstrated real-time biologic activity of osteocytes while bending the bone matrix. Using 43 male ...
The Impact of Biomechanics in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2009-12)
Biomechanical factors profoundly influence the processes of tissue growth, development, maintenance, degeneration, and repair. Regenerative strategies to restore damaged or diseased tissues in vivo and create living tissue ...
Variation in external rotation moment arms among subregions of supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor muscles
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006-08)
A rotator cuff tear causes morphologic changes in rotator cuff muscles and tendons and reduced shoulder strength. The mechanisms by which these changes affect joint strength are not understood. This study's purpose was to ...
A Probabilistic Model of Glenohumeral External Rotation Strength for Healthy Normals and Rotator Cuff Tear Cases
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-03)
The reigning paradigm of musculoskeletal modeling is to construct deterministic models from parameters of an “average” subject and make predictions for muscle forces and joint torques with this model. This approach is ...
Mechanical environment alters tissue formation patterns during fracture repair
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09)
Fracture repair has previously been shown to be sensitive to mechanical environment, yet the specific relationship between strain character, magnitude and frequency, as well as other mechanical parameters, and tissue ...