Biomechanical concepts and effects...This article first appeared in Bedsore Biomechanics and is reproduced by kind permission of Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Superficial tissue ulceration can be caused by the effect of mechanical loads acting on localised areas of skin and subcutaneous tissues. Be they low sustained loads applied for long periods or higher loads intermittently applied, the importance of the time factor has been recognised clinically by d...

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Publicado en:Journal of Tissue Viability Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 24 - 27
Autores principales: Gibson T, Barbanel JC, Evans JH
Formato: review tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2006 May
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