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The kinematics and kinetics of pivot TPLO plates.
Lately, there has been a tendency to use TPLO plates with angled compression screws. Two such plates are the BioCurve by Movora and the...

Christos Nikolaou
Mar 241 min read


How to calculate the rotation of the tibial plateau manually
Although most of the times we use charts which will show how much we need to move the proximal tibial fragment to achieve a tibial...

Christos Nikolaou
Mar 83 min read


Joint contact reaction force - Part 2 - The intact stifle joint.
In the previous post , we became familiar with finding the reaction elements from a wall when a beam is fixed on it. We said that the...

Christos Nikolaou
Feb 173 min read


Joint contact reaction force - Part 1
What is the stifle joint contact reaction force? From Newton’s third law, we know that for every action, there is an equal and opposite...

Christos Nikolaou
Feb 95 min read


Joint reaction force – An introduction using the TPLO paradigm.
The joint reaction force is an essential concept in biomechanics. Researchers in human medicine want to know its magnitude to understand...

Christos Nikolaou
Feb 16 min read


Elastic Osteosynthesis – The Energy approach.
In a previous post , we tried to explain the concept of elastic osteosynthesis as described in the veterinary literature by comparing the...

Christos Nikolaou
Jan 266 min read


Elastic osteosynthesis - An Introduction
I haven’t spent more time on anything else during my biomechanical endeavours other than trying to justify why an elastic construct would...

Christos Nikolaou
Jan 207 min read


The mean value of a continuous variable
How do we find the mean value of several values? It seems easy to answer when considering a finite amount of values for which we want the...

Christos Nikolaou
Jan 145 min read


Comments on the Effect of an Orthogonal Locking Plate and Primary Plate Working Length on Construct Stiffness and Plate Strain in an In vitro Fracture-Gap Model.
This is not an easy read and not the simplified biomechanics in simple English I promised to deliver in my Introduction article. Nevertheless, you may find it interesting as it results from analytical thinking, where each mathematically solid statement follows the next in a logical order. This article has been published here . You can view the reply to this article here . Although I disagree with the authors' reply, this does not mean their results are invalid. Nevertheless,

Christos Nikolaou
Jan 121 min read


Website Introduction
"Mechanics is the branch of applied mathematics dealing with motion and forces producing motion." Oxford Languages ...

Christos Nikolaou
Aug 30, 20243 min read
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