Det er mange eksempler på bruk av entlastnung på tysk i forbindelse med stress shielding

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Note added at 4 days (2009-07-27 17:53:31 GMT) Post-grading
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I suspect this is the source text used for a bone fixation device:
POSSIBLE ADVERSE EFFECTS
1. Decrease in density of bone and/or necrosis of bone due to stress shielding.

The stress shielding is the actual redistribution of load (and consequently stress on the bone) that, as an example, occurs when the femoral head is replaced by the femoral component of a total hip replacement.
The "new" stress may result in decrease in bone density.
http://www.bananarepublican.info/Stress_shielding.htm
explains:
The wight bearing situation changes when there is a total hip joint device. The much stiffer shaft component of the total hip takes over the majority of the load stresses.

Now the stresses of the body weight flow through the total joint center and then through the shaft component of the device. The flow of the stresses then enters the thighbone at the tip of the femoral component. The consequences of the changed flow of stresses are two:

First, the upper part of the thighbone is unloaded; it contains less bone tissue and it is weaker, more susceptible to fracture. In the right hand picture the stress shielded area is whiter.

Second, the skeleton around the tip of the femoral component is overloaded; it becomes more thick and stronger. In the right hand picture this area is darker. Unfortunately, the thickening of the skeleton is often painful. The patients with cementless shafts of total hip devices often claim about the pain in the thigh, especially during the first years after the surgery.

Does that satisfy you, Svein Hartwig?