Fig. 4

Mechanical assessment of whole bovine knees where menisci are treated with pristine sutures, patches or adhesive sutures. A Cyclic loading profile in four phases: preconditioning (10 cycles), pre-treatment (100 cycles), post-treatment (100 cycles) and endgame (400 cycles). B Force–displacement curves for the specific cycles indicated are plotted for three treatment conditions. C Normalized stiffness of repaired menisci in post-treatment and endgame