Biomechanical Evaluation of Dual Plate Configurations for Femoral Shaft Fracture Fixation

Figure 4

Rotational stiffness testing of the different plating techniques. DLP-A plates were statistically stiffer in torsion than DCP-A constructs (p<0.001). Similarly, DLP-O constructs exhibited higher rotation rigidity than DCP-O plating (p<0.01). Although DCP-A plates were less rigid than DLP-A (p<0.001), the difference did not hold for their orthogonal counterparts (DCP-O versus DLP-O, p=0.09).