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Advances in compression nails – principles and biomechanical photoelastic evaluation
Author(s) -
Mittelmeier W.,
Bader R.,
Steinhauser E.,
Hauschild M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
materialwissenschaft und werkstofftechnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1521-4052
pISSN - 0933-5137
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4052(200112)32:12<897::aid-mawe897>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - nail (fastener) , compression (physics) , osteosynthesis , orthodontics , materials science , medicine , engineering , structural engineering , composite material
The nail‐osteosynthesis is an established concept for shaft‐fractures of long bones. The compression‐nail ICN enables a favourable primary‐stability and also a former full weight‐bearing over a pre‐compression of the nail‐bone‐system. The indications of the compression‐nail include beside more diaphyseal cross fractures and short oblique fractures non‐unions and correction‐osteotomies. Newer modular nail‐types like the tandem compression nail (TCN) can improve the biomechanical prerequisites of the compression nail principle.