A post hoc comparison of the mechanical factors that affected the outcome of experimental metaphyseal- and diaphyseal-lengthening osteotomies in sheep tibiae was performed. The resulting motions between bone segments at the metaphyseal and diaphyseal levels were estimated using measured fixator stiffnesses, postural muscle activity, ground reaction forces, and calculated internal and external loads. Relative displacements of bone segments of up to 2.8 degrees were estimated in postural activities; displacements were up to 4.9 times larger at the metaphyseal than at the diaphyseal osteotomy level. The results suggest that due to these increased motions, mechanically inferior conditions for healing at the metaphyseal-lengthening osteotomy level may counteract any supposedly superior biologic healing potential that the metaphyseal region of the bone may have compared with the diaphyseal region. These results correlate well with the clinical findings of the earlier animal study.
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