Table 3.

Tensile relaxation stress at 0 sec, and percent loss at 10 and 30 sec after holding strain at 2, 6 and 10%. Results were similar for the intermediate strain levels.

	2%			6%			10%
	Relaxation stress at 0 sec (MPa)	% loss at 10 sec	% loss at 30 sec	Relaxation stress at 0 sec (MPa)	% loss at 10 sec	% loss at 30 sec	Relaxation stress at 0 sec (MPa)	% loss at 10 sec	% loss at 30 sec
Anterior vertical	0.05±0.02	35.1±7.2	45.4±9.4	0.08±0.04	37.5±8.0	46.4±10.9	0.11±0.06	39.1±9.2	50.1±10.8
Posterior vertical	0.06±0.02	35.8±8.1	47.0±10.1	0.10±0.03	36.4±7.8	48.2±9.2	0.14±0.06	35.1±8.6	47.4±11.2
Dorsal horizontal	0.06±0.02	34.5±8.3	44.7±9.9	0.09±0.04	34.6±6.6	44.1±9.6	0.15±0.05	33.9±5.7	45.4±6.8
Ventral horizontal	0.06±0.02	33.4±5.8	44.5±7.4	0.09±0.04	32.2±10.7	40.4±13.5	0.13±0.05	34.4±6.2	46.0±7.1