cles or the tendons then that’s minimally invasive surgery. If you can do it with two incisions, three incisions, or ten incisions, it doesn’t matter, as long as you don’t cut the muscles or the tendons. Most of the ways that surgeons are doing a single mini incision involve cutting the muscles and cutting the tendons. There’s nothing magic about making one incision or two incisions. However, t...

Sonomicrometrics of in vivo axial strain of muscle has shown that the swimming fish body bends like a homogenous, continuous beam in all species except tuna. This simple beam-like behavior is surprising because the underlying tendon structure, muscle structure and behavior are complex. Given this incongruence, our goal was to understand the mechanical role of various myoseptal tendons. We model...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of various decellularization methods on the histological and biomechanical properties of rabbit tendons. In total, six chemical reagents, including 1% t-octyl-phenoxypolyethoxyethanol (Triton-X 100), 0.5% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), 1% tri-n-butyl phosphate (TnBP), 1% Triton-X 100 + 0.5% SDS, 1% TnBP + 0.5% SDS and 1% TnBP + 1% Trito...

Tendons are soft connective tissues, which connect muscle to bone forming a musculotendinous unit, whose primary function is to transmit tensile loads generated by muscles to move and enhance joints stability. Adult tendons have relatively low oxygen and nutrient requirements, low cell density, and poor regenerative capacity. The biomechanical properties of tendons are mainly attributed to the ...