Objective To establish an experimental rabbit model for studying the effect of the continuous compres-sive stress on reconstruction of a large bone defect.Methods Twenty adult Japanese rabbits were used and randomly di-vided into two groups.Artificial bone made of foam silicon carbide was implanted in a large bone defect in length of 13 mm at mid-distal humeral shaft of right side.Ni-Ti shape memory connector with both fixation and continuous compressive stress was used as the experimental group,and that wi...