Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion
Muscles and Molecules: Uncovering the Principles of Biological Motion
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肌肉和分子:揭示生物运动的原理
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1990
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G. Pollack
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G. Pollack
In April 1990, Dr Georg Bergmann and his colleagues in Berlin hosted a meeting entitled ‘Workshop on Implantable Telemetry in Orthopaedics’ which ‘brought together most research groups which have ever been involved in telemetric measures in viva on the skeletal system’. This small volume reports the contributions of the individual participants, who represent a dozen current groups in half as many countries actively pursuing such work. The telemetered devices ranged from external fixators and intramedullary nails to joint implants and spinal instrumentation. In the preface, the editors comment: ‘We hope that the work presented in this publication may help to prevent them (others) from running into the difficulties which have already been encountered and overcome (or bypassed) by the (various) authors.’ The book is a valuable resource for those interested either in the measuring techniques or in viuo force data per se. While much of the material has been published in one form or another in diverse sources, many details (e.g. technical, data) have not. For example, a number of reports include details of construction which might not be appropriate for some peerreview articles. The Berlin group reports a novel use of these devices: monitoring increased temperature presumably as a result of friction. Useful in uivo data from the MIT/Massachusetts General Hospital (hip contact stresses), CaseWestern (hip resultant loads), and Berlin (hip resultant loads) groups appear in a section entitled ‘In Vim Load Measurements’. Furthermore, this gathers the material in a single source, as well as providing many references to published material One note ofcaution: some of the new material has not been submitted to peer-review, even when it has appeared in print. This reviewer found a few erroneous or irrelevant statements in several manuscripts. This minor comment aside, the book is a valuable addition to the orthopaedic biomechanics literature, and will prove an important resource for many investigators. New or relatively new researchers in the field will indeed likely find solutions to various technical problems either explicitly or implicitly explored. Dr Bergmann performed a useful service to the research community when he organized this workshop, and a more valuable one in publishing the proceedings.