Abstract:Traditional locking screw constructs have defects of high stiffness and strain concentration at the near cortex under the plate. Recently, a kind of far cortical locking technology motivated by a high rate of nonunion of distal femur fractures treated with traditional locking screw constructs has been gradually developed. It can reduce the stiffness of traditional locking screw constructs by 80% while retain the same strength as the locking screw constructs, provide flexible fixation and parallel micro-motion, and induce more and symmetrical callus formation. There is a new breakthrough in theory in far cortical locking technology for treatment of fractures. It has showed that far cortical locking technology may reduce the high rate of nonunion of distal femur fractures in animal experiment and primary clinical application.