Ligament Links
[Rod Lakes]

yellow ball Tissue mechanics class.

yellow ball Ligament and tendon
* Ligament structure.
* Ligament structure. Normal (top) and scar (bottom) tissues of a healing medial collateral ligament (MCL) in slack configuration.
* Ligament structure. Bifurcation/Fusion of collagen fibrils in normal MCL tissue at 20,000X (arrow). Note the collagen fibril overlap and interweaving.
* Ligament structure. Scanning electron micrographs of a normal rat medial collateral ligament (A)
* Ligament structure. Ligament in which a single tensile overload produced microstructural damage but not ligament rupture (B).
* Ligament relaxation.
* Ligament creep and relaxation.
* Tendon hierarchical structure diagram.