Abstract
Ligaments and tendons are tightly packed collagen fiber bundles that connect, respectively, bone to bone and muscle to bone in order to facilitate the loads and motions of limbs and articulating joints. As such, understanding the mechanical properties of soft tissues like ligaments and tendons is an integral concept in the study of orthopaedic biomechanics. Specific applications include, but are not limited to, computational modeling, comparing treatment groups in a clinical study, verifying the use of an animal model for a human surrogate, evaluating surgical and clinical treatment options, and inferring a structure–function relationship for the soft tissue structure in question. Therefore, this chapter explains and compares how to effectively perform ligament and tendon tensile testing in a uniaxial configuration, as well as how to analyze, present, and interpret results.
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