The Stress-Strain Data of the Hip Capsule Ligaments Are Gender and Side Independent Suggesting a Smaller Contribution to Passive Stiffness

• Philipp Pieroh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Pieroh, Sebastian Schneider

  Affiliations Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

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• Sebastian Schneider ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Pieroh, Sebastian Schneider

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Uwe Lingslebe,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Freddy Sichting,

  Affiliation Institute of Sport Science, Department of Human Locomotion, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

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• Thomas Wolfskämpf,

  Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Christoph Josten,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Jörg Böhme,

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Trauma and Plastic Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Niels Hammer ,

  * E-mail: nlshammer@googlemail.com

  Affiliations Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Hanno Steinke

  Affiliation Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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