1Musculoskeletal Translational Innovation Initiative, Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 2Mechanical Engineering Department,Boston University, 3Carl J. Shapiro Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 4Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,Yerevan State Medical University
This protocol presents a testing system used to induce quantifiable and controlled fatigue injuries in a rat Achilles tendon for an in-vivo model of overuse-induced tendinopathy. The procedure consists of securing the rat’s ankle to a joint actuator that performs passive ankle dorsiflexion with a custom-written MATLAB script.
