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The purpose of this biomechanical study was to compare its construct stability to that of a plantar plate construct. Twelve pairs of fresh frozen human specimens were used in a matched pair test. Each pair was fixed with a 4 mm compression screw and either a plantar locking plate or a medio-plantar locking plate. A cantilever beam test was performed in dorsiflexion. Before and after cyclic loading (5000 cycles; 40 N), bending stiffness and relative movements at the joint space were monitored in a quasi-static test including optical motion tracking. Maximum load and bending moment to failure were investigated in a load-to-failure ramp test. The bending stiffness of both groups did not significantly differ before (plantar 49.9 N\/mm \u00b1 19.2; medio-plantar 53.9 N\/mm \u00b1 25.4, p = 0.43) or after (plantar 24.4 N\/mm \u00b1 9.7; medio-plantar 35.3 N\/mm \u00b1 22.0, p = 0.08) cyclic loading but decreased significantly in both groups (p &lt; 0.01) after cyclic loading. Relative movement increased significantly during cyclic testing in both groups (p &lt; 0.01) but did not differ significantly between the groups before (p = 0.29) or after (p = 0.16) cyclic loading. Neither load nor bending moment to failure were significantly different (plantar 225 N \u00b1 78, 10.8 Nm; medio-plantar 210 N \u00b1 86, 10.1 Nm, p = 0.61). Both plate constructs provided equivalent construct stability, both being well suited for Lapidus arthrodesis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm12123896","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,8]],"date-time":"2023-06-08T02:02:28Z","timestamp":1686189748000},"page":"3896","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Biomechanical Comparison of Medio-Plantar and Plantar Plate Fixation for First Tarsometatarsal Joint Arthrodesis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Kajetan","family":"Klos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07747 Jena, Germany"},{"name":"Foot and Ankle Division, Gelenkzentrum Rhein-Main, Frankfurter Str. 94, 65239 Hochheim am Main, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Paul","family":"Simons","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Foot and Ankle Division, St. Josefs-Hospital Rheingau, Eibinger Str. 9, 65385 R\u00fcdesheim am Rhein, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pauline","family":"Schopp","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07747 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3610-2469","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Philipp","family":"Schenk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Executive Department, BG Klinikum Bergmannstrost, 06112 Halle, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6863-9025","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Felix C.","family":"Kohler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07747 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7780-1760","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akram","family":"Uddin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Podiatric Surgery, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Danetre Hospital, London Road, Northamptonshire NN11 4DY, UK"},{"name":"Department of Podiatric Surgery, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Rochford Hospital, Essex, Rochford SS4 1RB, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Edgar K.","family":"Roth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Foot and Ankle Division, Gelenkzentrum Rhein-Main, Frankfurter Str. 94, 65239 Hochheim am Main, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Uta","family":"Biedermann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Anatomy I, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gunther O.","family":"Hofmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07747 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1245-6051","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mark","family":"Lenz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07747 Jena, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"183","article-title":"The operative correction of the metatarsus primus varus in hallux valgus","volume":"58","author":"Lapidus","year":"1934","journal-title":"Surg. 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