Fig. 8From: Biomechanical properties of five different currently used implants for open-wedge high tibial osteotomyDefinition of the deflection angle (Maas et al. 2013). In general the lateral displacement dL was found to be positive with greater magnitude than the medial displacement dM that was counted as negative. Hence the deflection angle α was defined by means of the difference (dL-dM)Back to article page