Evaluation of the Seattle Foot was the first major evaluation project undertaken by the Rehabilitation Research and Development Evaluation Unit. As a joint project with the Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Service, it not only helped to launch an important new prosthetic foot concept but also set precedents for methods and procedures to evaluate promising prototype devices and to facilitate their co...

Relative risk of impingement and joint instability during sexual activities after total hip arthroplasty (THA) has never been objectively investigated. Hip range of motion necessary to perform sexual positions is unknown. A motion capture study with two volunteers was performed. 12 common sexual positions were captured and relevant hip joint kinematics calculated. The recorded data were applied...

Septic arthritis of the native knee joint and total knee arthroplasty both cause diagnostic and treatment issues. There is no gold standard test to diagnose a joint infection and the use of joint aspiration is commonly relied on. It is widely accepted by orthopaedic surgeons that antibiotics should be withheld until aspiration has been performed to increase the odds of identifying an organism....

Shoulder arthroplasty is a technically demanding procedure to restore shoulder function in patients with severe osteoarthritis of the glenohumeral joint. The modern prosthetic system exploit the benefits of modularity and the availibility of additional sizes of the prosthetic components. In this paper we describe the biomechanics of shoulder arthroplasty and the technique for shoulder replaceme...

Fungal periprosthetic joint infections due to Aspergillus species are rare but are associated with significant cost and morbidity. We present a case of Asperigillus terreus prosthetic joint infection of the hip. The patient was successfully treated with a prolonged course of systemic antifungals along with surgical management.

Late Prosthetic Joint Infection and Bacteremia by Bacillus cereus Confirmed by 16S rRNA Sequencing and Hip Joint Tissue Pathology Jihye Ha, Yu Jin Park, Yee Jeong Kim, Hyun Cheol Oh, Young Ah Kim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Departments of Pathology, Orthopedic Surgery, Laboratory Medicine, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goy...

OBJECTIVES We used the National Joint Registry for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man (NJR) to investigate the risk of revision due to prosthetic joint infection (PJI) for patients undergoing primary and revision hip arthroplasty, the changes in risk over time, and the overall burden created by PJI. METHODS We analysed revision total hip arthroplasties (THAs) performed due t...

The wrist plays an important role for the function of the human hand. The wrist joint is a complicated anatomical unit, consisting of various bones, ligaments and muscles. The distal and proximal joints combined with the rotation of the forearm excite movements at various levels that bring the hand into different positions. Apart from the rotation, the newly developed wrist with low constructio...

Abstract Interest has grown in less invasive surgical treatment and early use of oral antibiotics the C. acnes prosthetic joint infection (PJI). We report a series patients who were successfully treated with single-stage exchange an all-oral course rifampin linezolid.

In this study, first, human hand anatomy is investigated dynamically. The tendon configuration of the fingers are also introduced and then modeled to imitate a real human hand index finger in the study because the actuating elements of the fingers are tendons on the phalanges. The prosthetic hand finger model is aimed to replace a real index finger of an amputated human. Therefore, artificial t...