A clever cadaveric study finally puts some real biomechanical data behind a question: Is it the pedicle doing the heavy lifting…or does the vertebral body deserve more credit than we give it?
Their research tackled this question with a study design that mirrors what your screws actually experience in real life: cyclic fatigue loading.
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