The primary role of tendon is to transmit the force of its associated muscle to bone. As such, the tendon needs to be relatively stiff and strong under tension. Herzog (2007) have stated that mechanical properties, such as fiber-bundle organization of the tendon allow for the maintenance of high tensile strength, with considerable flexibility in bending, in the same way that a wire rope maintains high tensile strength and flexibility as compared to an equal cross-section of solid steel (., Alexander (1988a); Alexander (1988b) and Wainwright et al. (1982)). The significance of the observed tensile properties can be appreciated by considering the tendon function. Tendon must be.
