Wolff's Law and Connective Tissue Regulation

Modern Interdisciplinary Comments on Wolff's Law of Connective Tissue Regulation and Rational Understanding of Common Clinical Problems

Guenter Regling

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110139099
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110875676
• Topic: Medizin
• Subtopic: Klinische Medizin

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Table of contents

• I. Historical Background
• Julius Wolff and the Law of Bone Remodelling H. Zippel
• A Noteworthy Meeting of the Society for Nature Research in Zurich Two Important Precursors of Julius Wolff: Carl Culmann and Hermann von Meyer B. Rüttimann
• Julius Wolff and Friedrich Pauwels Wolff's Concept of a Causal Therapy of Orthopaedic Diseases Using Biological Adaptation Phenomena and Its Realization by Friedrich Pauwels F. Löer, R. Weigmann
• Wolff's Law Paul Maquet
• II. Theory of Biological Sciences
• Biological Explanation and Principle of Causality R. Löther
• Adaptation and Compensation as Biological Principles of Medical Thinking and Action A. Hecht
• Feedback Control Processes in Medicine and Technology - a Comparison F. Thomas
• III. Biomechanical Considerations
• Computer Aided Simulation of the Functional Bone Adaptation - a Method to Check a Theory B. Kummer
• The Mechanoreceptor Hypothesis for Remodeling of Bone and the Influence of Fluorid Therapy for Osteoporosis on It K. Abendroth
• Metaphyseal Stress Shielding and Transarticular Load Transfer - a Biomechanical Concept of Osteopenia R. Schleberger, K. Bernsmann, E. M. Schneider
• Bone Remodelling in Disuse Osteoporosis H.-G. Willert, A. Enderle
• Selenite, Nitrate, and Mercury and their Influence on Regulation Principles in Connective Tissue G. Wilsdorf
• The Biological Role of Oxygen Radicals, Lipid Peroxidation, and Antioxidative Therapy in Connective Tissue Regulation G. Regling, A. Hager, G. Wilsdorf
• VI. Special Clinical Problems
• Model Investigations on the Loading of Bone in the Area of Hip-Joint Prostheses, and New Prosthesis Designs in Consideration of Wolff's Law A. Schreiber, H. A. C. Jacob, A. H. Huggler
• Modes of Adaptation in Noncemented Total Hip Endoprosthesis K. Rossak
• Cementless Implantation of the Stem of Different Types of Standard Hip Endoprosthesis G. E. Krakovits
• Bone Adaptation to Dynamic Osteosynthetic Implants R. Labitzke
• Complex Biophysical-Chemical Therapies for Squamous Cell Carcinoma U. G. Randoll, R. M. Pangan, R. Dehmlow