PURPOSE To examine the long-term effects of hip arthrodesis in terms of gait adaptations. METHODS Motion analysis was performed on 9 patients who underwent unilateral hip arthrodesis between 1979 and 1991. A standard clinical gait analysis 3-dimensional model for the lower limb was used to calculate the effect of the fused hip on walking, compared with the contralateral normal hip. RESULTS ...

Background: Regular walking in different types of footwear may increase the mediolateral shear force, knee adduction moment, or vertical ground-reaction forces that could risk early development osteoarthritis (OA). Purpose: To compare kinematic and kinetic parameters affect OA 3 conditions. Study Design: Controlled laboratory study. Methods: A total 40 asymptomatic participants performed trials...

Gait modification offers a noninvasive option for offloading the medial compartment of the knee in patients with knee osteoarthritis. While gait modifications have been proposed based on their ability to reduce the external knee adduction moment, no gait pattern has been proven to reduce medial compartment contact force directly. This study used in vivo contact force data collected from a singl...

Joint loading has been implicated in the pathogenesis of knee osteoarthritis (OA). While compartment-specific measures such as the knee adduction moment have received much attention in the literature, less is known about other measures of dynamic loading in this patient population. This cross-sectional study assessed strength and walking patterns of 204 individuals with radiographically confirm...

Excessive contact force is believed to contribute to the development of medial compartment knee osteoarthritis. The external knee adduction moment (KAM) has been identified as a surrogate measure for medial contact force during gait, with an abnormally large peak value being linked to increased pain and rate of disease progression. This study used in vivo gait data collected from a subject with...

The menisci play an important role in load distribution, load bearing, joint stability, lubrication, and proprioception. Partial meniscectomy has been shown to result in changes in the kinematics and kinetics at the knee during gait that can lead to progressive meniscal degeneration. This study examined changes in the strains within the menisci associated with kinematic and kinetic changes duri...