Biomechanical Analysis of the Efficacy of Locking Plates during Cyclic Loading in Metacarpal Fractures

Table 1

Mean load (𝐹) applied during cyclic testing and displacement measured for the locking and nonlocking plates.

	Mean	SD
Nonlocking plates
Monocortical; (group I) (𝑛=10)
𝐹 [N]	101.6	28.4
Displacement [mm]	1.14	0.45
Bicortical; (group II) (𝑛=10)
𝐹 [N]	119	28.67
Displacement [mm]	0.96	0.44
Locking plates
Monocortical; (group III) (𝑛=10)
𝐹 [N]	112.8	17.96
Displacement [mm]	0.72	0.30
Bicortical; (group IV) (𝑛=10)
𝐹 [N]	107.4	40.19
Displacement [mm]	1.23	0.70