about 80 mm hence the longer implant should be correspondingly more compliant that is have a stiffness of 26 u00b7 57 80 19 n mm this is only a fraction of the 148 to 348 n mm ccl stiffness of dogs reported in literature wang j h mechanobiology of tendon j biomech 2006 39 9 1563 1582 gelberman r h et al the effect of gap formation at the repair site on the strength and excursion of intrasynovial flexor tendons an experimental study on the early stages of tendon healing in dogs j bone joint surg am 1999 81 7 975 982 palmes d et al achilles tendon healing long term biomechanical effects of postoperative mobilization and immobilization in a new mouse model j orthop res 2002 20 5 939 946 preliminary data from an ongoing clinical evaluation in 28 dogs indicate that this implant has restored the stifle joint stability of every individual with a follow up time of up to one year the 4 mm diameter implant illustrated in fig6 c was made from a 20 mm wide 70 mm long cut out strip of the crimped fabric as of example 1 with a prestretch procedure that caused the same elongation as the implant described in example 6 the stiffness of the.