Ligament creep cannot be predicted from
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G. M. Thornton; A. Oliynyk; C. B. Frank; N. G. Shrive
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In normal daily activity, ligaments are probably subjected to repeated loading rather than to repeated deformation. The viscoelastic response to repeated loading is creep; this effect has significance for ligament reconstructions, which potentially "stretch out" over time. However, most experimental