Table 2.

Stress relaxation properties of human meniscal attachments (LA – lateral anterior, LP – lateral posterior, MA – medial anterior, MP – medial posterior). Average ± standard deviation. Linear curve fits of the normalized data plotted against the log of time was >80%.

Overall Stress Relaxation Properties
	Load at End (N)	Load Relaxation Rate (N/ln(s))	Normalized Load at End	Normalized Relaxation Rate (1/ln(s))	Stress at End (MPa)	Stress Relaxation Rate (MPa/ln(s))
LA	17.17 ± 2.59	−1.065 ± 0.492	0.71 ± 0.09	−0.042 ± 0.016	0.82 ± 0.26	−0.049 ± 0.020
LP	15.98 ± 2.14	−0.881 ± 0.351	0.79 ± 0.10	−0.043 ± 0.018	1.18 ± 0.35	−0.069 ± 0.036
MA	18.98 ± 3.77	−1.365 ± 0.103^	0.68 ± 0.08^	−0.050 ± 0.011	1.34 ± 0.77	−0.090 ± 0.043^
MP	14.61 ± 1.19	−0.449 ± 0.142	0.85 ± 0.05	−0.026 ± 0.011	0.43 ± 0.07	−0.013 ± 0.004
MEAN	16.60 ± 2.81	−0.919 ± 0.452	0.76 ± 0.10	−0.040 ± 0.016	0.91 ± 0.52	−0.052 ± 0.039

^{^}Statistically different from MP (p<0.05)

n=5