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- Title
Bone Strength: What are We Trying to Measure?
- Authors
Currey, J. D.
- Abstract
This article presents information related to bone strength. Stress can be considered the intensity of force, and is measured by force divided by the area over which it acts. In general, the toughness of bone material is inversely related to its bending strength and modulus of elasticity. Thus, children's bone material, because of its lower mineralization, is weaker in static loading than adults. There are situations in which cancellous bone material, though good at preventing a bone from starting to crack, is not good for resisting crack travel. When the prediction of bone failure is mainly epidemiological, based on relatively straightforward measures of the amount of bone present and fracture incidence, the information is probably not of great importance to the clinician.
- Subjects
BONE injuries; PHYSIOLOGIC strain; MEDICAL personnel; BONE fractures; BONES; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Calcified Tissue International, 2001, Vol 68, Issue 4, p205
- ISSN
0171-967X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s002230020040