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Biomechanics

proposal that bone has strain set points, adding bone above one threshold and removing it below another.

In biomechanics, mechanostat refers to proposal that bone has strain set points, adding bone above one threshold and removing it below another. This meaning comes from Frost (1987) in The Anatomical Record.[1]

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References

Frost, H. M. (1987). Bone “mass” and the “mechanostat”: A proposal. The Anatomical Record, 219(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.1092190104

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