BACKGROUND Little evidence exists regarding how prosthesis design characteristics affect performance in tasks that challenge mediolateral balance such as turning. This study assesses the influence of prosthetic foot stiffness on amputee walking mechanics and balance control during a continuous turning task. METHODS Three-dimensional kinematic and kinetic data were collected from eight unilate...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypoplasia of the rostral third of the SSS is a well-known variant and constitutes the most frequent variation of the SSS after preferential drainage to one of the transverse sinuses. Our aim was to describe unilateral hypoplasia of the rostral end of the SSS. MATERIALS AND METHODS CTA performed in 100 consecutive patients studied for conditions other than dural sinus t...

The Muenke syndrome (MS) is characterized by unicoronal or bicoronal craniosynostosis, midfacial hypoplasia, ocular hypertelorism, and a variety of minor abnormalities associated with a mutation in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) gene. The birth prevalence is approximately one in 10,000 live births, accounting for 8-10% of patients with coronal synostosis. Although MS is a relat...

We reviewed 25 patients ascertained through the finding of trigonocephaly/metopic synostosis as a prominent manifestation. In 16 patients, trigonocephaly/metopic synostosis was the only significant finding (64%); 2 patients had metopic/sagittal synostosis (8%) and in 7 patients the trigonocephaly was part of a syndrome (28%). Among the nonsyndromic cases, 12 were males and 6 were females and th...

BACKGROUND Few studies have compared the effect of different computer navigation systems on postoperative alignment in patients who have had total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We examined 2 computed tomography (CT)-free computer navigation systems by comparing the accuracy of intraoperative measurements to postoperative alignment. METHODS Patients underwent unilateral TKA performed by a single su...

Fig. 4. Age-related increase in number of inclusions in brains of male C57BL/6 mice. LBP-like immunoreactive clusters were quantified in 25-pim coronal sections through the dorsal hippocampus. For each animal, the number of clusters per unilateral hippocampus was determined in several sections and subsequently averaged. Numbers of mice were 6, 5, 4, 9, 9, and 17 at ages 0 to 2, 6, 9 to 10, 12 t...