Fig. 6

Spatiotemporal distribution of tibial stresses. Top and bottom panels show tibial von Mises stresses (a) and cumulative tibial stresses (b), respectively, during one gait cycle without a load (0% baseline, left), with a 20% body weight (BW) load (center), and a 30% BW load (right). We divided the cross section of the left tibia into six sectors. A: Anterior; MA: Medial Anterior; MP: Medial Posterior; P: Posterior; LP: Lateral Posterior; LA: Lateral Anterior. To emphasize the high-stress region on the medial-posterior side, the anterior-posterior (A-P) axis of the 3-D tibia is set oblique relative to the page. Tibial cross sections are arranged with A-P axis running vertically along the page