Table 3.

Percent change in Colles’ fracture load with increasing strain rate compared to the maximum strain rate (0.01 s⁻¹) measured for daily activities. The reported values correspond to experimentally measured strain rates for controlled falling (Foldhazy et al., 2005) and impact loading experiments (Bass et al., 1997; Duma et al., 1999). The results are based on Bone 1, however, the percent changes were almost the same for Bone 2 with less than 1% difference.

Strain rate (s−1)	Description	Percent reduction in fracture load (%)
0.046	median controlled falling	0.5
0.29	maximum controlled falling	3.7
2.05	minimum impact	22
3.70	mean impact	34
6.78	maximum impact	46
18	maximum investigated value	56