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Historical folklore indicates that Asklepios (circa 900 BC), the fir~t western doctor of ancient Greece, treated many patients with rheumatic diseases of 1 joints ,2. Later, Hippocrates (circa 400 BC), who claimed to have learned from Asklepios, used the term arthritis in reference to joint diseases: ""When the disease of arthritis strikes, acute inflammation and pain attacks the joints of the body ... "". Indeed, arthritic joint disease dates much farther back into antiquity than Asklepios. Many modern anthropologists have noted degenerative joint disease in the fossils of Neanderthal man (archanthropus europeus petraloniensis) and even in those of dinosaurs. More recent scientific studies on joints date back to the work of the great English anatomist Hunter who wrote ""The Structure and Diseases of Articular Cartilage"" in the Philosophical Transactions of London in 1743. The notion that osteoarthritis results from the wearing away of cartilage was copiously documented by the histological observations of the German physician Ecker in 1843. This idea was further supported by Pommer (1927) who felt that mechanical stresses played important roles in the initiation and propagation of cartilage lesions leading to osteoarthritis. This same conclusion was reached by the assembled distinguished experts at a National Institutes of Health Workshop 3 held in 1986 .

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Author:   Van C. Mow ,  Anthony Ratcliffe ,  Savio L-Y. Woo
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9781461280156

ISBN 10:   146128015
Pages:   451
Publication Date:   17 September 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I Ligaments, Tendons, and Menisc.- 1. Structure and Function of Normal and Healing Tendons and Ligaments.- 2. The Biology of Tendons and Ligaments.- 3. Biomechanics and Morphology of the Medial Collateral and Anterior Cruciate Ligaments.- 4. Biomechanics of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament and its Replacements.- 5. New Insights Into Load Bearing Functions of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament.- 6. Structure and Biology of the Knee Meniscus.- 7. Structure and Function of the Meniscus: Basic and Clinical Implications.- II Cartilage Biomechanics.- 8. Biphasic and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Theories for Hydrated Soft Tissues.- 9. Physicochemical and Bioelectrical Determinants of Cartilage Material Properties.- 10. A Triphasic Theory for the Swelling Properties of Hydrated Charged Soft Biological Tissues.- 11. Viscometric Properties of Proteoglycan Solutions at Physiological Concentrations.- 12. Osmotic and Hydraulic Flows in Proteoglycan Solutions.- 13. Water Content and Solute Diffusion Properties in Articular Cartilage.- 14. Biomechanical Properties of Healing Cartilage.- 15. Alternate Hybrid, Mixed, and Penalty Finite Element Formulations for the Biphasic Model of Soft Hydrated Tissues.- 16. Characteristics of Joint Loading as it Applies to Osteoarthrosis.

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