Joint Contact Area and Pressure

During the later half of the past decade a considerable amount of information on the biomechanics of the human wrist has been uncovered by measuring the contact areas and pressures in cadaver wrists in a variety of normal, simulated post-traumatic, and surgically treated conditions. The results of these studies have added to our knowledge base and provided clinically relevant information on the normal functional mechanics of the wrist as well as insight on and guidelines for the treatment of a number of different fractures and ligament injuries in and about the wrist.