Background: Relief of pain and physical function improvements normally happen in 6 to 12 months following total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Neverthless, persists some patients even after one year. Likewise, functional improvement is insufficient. We have evaluated the effectiveness an isokinetic strengthening program on post-operativelly (1-9 years) pain, funtional limitation, level walking stair ...

Climbing and descending stairs are demanding daily activities, and the monitoring of them may reveal the presence of musculoskeletal diseases at an early stage. A markerless system is needed to monitor such stair walking activity without mentally or physically disturbing the subject. Microsoft Kinect v2 has been used for gait monitoring, as it provides a markerless skeleton tracking function. H...

Gait measurement is of interest for both orthopedists and biomechanical engineers. It is useful for analysis of gait disorders and in design of orthotic and prosthetic devices. In recent years portable sensors have been studied as a complement to vision based (Morris & Paradiso, 2002). They have been used to measure both the kinematics of gait such as accelerations and angles as well as kinetic...