Table 3.

Creep 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 Creep Properties
	Displacement at End (mm)	Displacement Creep Rate (mm/ln(s))	Normalized Displacement at End	Normalized Creep Rate (1/ln(s))	Strain at End (%)	Strain Creep Rate (%/ln(s))
LA	0.24 ± 0.18	0.052 ± 0.028	1.037 ± 0.042	0.007 ± 0.008	1.91 ± 1.47	0.414 ± 0.240
LP	0.20 ± 0.10	0.046 ± 0.022	1.031 ± 0.026	0.007 ± 0.007	2.60 ± 1.30	0.606 ± 0.290
MA	0.29 ± 0.17	0.060 ± 0.040	1.071 ± 0.106	0.017 ± 0.016	2.58 ± 1.99	0.671 ± 0.366
MP	0.17 ± 0.08	0.036 ± 0.016	1.012 ± 0.008	0.002 ± 0.001	3.43 ± 1.58	0.745 ± 0.404
MEAN	0.22 ± 0.13	0.048 ± 0.026	1.036 ± 0.054	0.008 ± 0.010	2.677 ± 1.542	0.616 ± 0.327

No significant differences present (p>0.05) n=5