. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Bone. 2010 Mar 6;46(6):1604–1612. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2010.02.030

Table 3.

Ulnar mechanical properties determined by three-point bending post mortem (mean ± SD)

	Ultimate Moment (N×mm)		Rigidity (N×mm²)		Normalized Post Yield Displacement (mm/mm²)		Normalized Fracture Energy (N)
	Control	Loaded	Control	Loaded	Control	Loaded	Control	Loaded
Day 0 (n=10)	5.3 ± 0.6	2.5 ± 0.3^*	100.4 ± 16.2	21.7 ± 6.7^*	0.14 ± 0.05	0.11 ± 0.06	0.65 ± 0.15	0.39 ± 0.10^*
Day 14 (n=11)	6.0 ± 0.6	6.0 ± 1.7	120.2 ± 22.9	113.3 ± 11.3	0.16 ± 0.03	0.10 ± 0.08	0.75 ± 0.13	0.73 ± 0.51

loaded different from non-loaded, contralateral control: paired t-test, p < 0.05