Comparison of the trabecular architecture and the isostatic stress flow in the human calcaneus

It is a common theory that the architecture of trabecular bone follows the principal stress trajectories, as suggested by Wolff’s pioneering studies of the proximal femur. Since first published in the late 19th-century, this observation (popularized as “Wolff’s law”) has been supported by numerous s...

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