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Patients who received total knee arthroplasty frequently show problems during knee extension exercises due to biomechanical alterations. Hinged knee prostheses, which provide higher stability than non-hinged designs, were supposed to minimize them. Therefore we investigated the quadriceps force required to extend the knee after non-hinged and hinged total knee arthroplasty. Human knee specimens were tested in a kinematic knee simulator in physiologic conditions, after implantation of two types of non-hinged cruciate retaining prosthesis and a hinged prosthesis. During simulation of an…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Patients who received total knee arthroplasty
frequently show problems during
knee extension exercises due to biomechanical
alterations. Hinged knee prostheses, which
provide higher stability than non-hinged designs,
were supposed to minimize them.
Therefore we investigated the quadriceps force
required to extend the knee after non-hinged and
hinged total knee arthroplasty. Human knee specimens
were tested in a kinematic knee simulator in
physiologic conditions, after implantation of two
types of non-hinged cruciate retaining prosthesis
and a hinged prosthesis. During simulation of an
extension cycle, the change of quadriceps force to
produce the constant extension moment of 31 Nm was
measured using a load cell attached to the
quadriceps tendon. After implantation of the non-
hinged prostheses maximum quadriceps force increased
up to 1257 N in knee extension. Following the
implantation of the hinged prosthesis quadriceps
extension force decreased to 690 N in
extension. Hinged knee prostheses improve the lever
arm in knee extension due to higher knee joint
stability. This would offer a potential advantage
for patients.
Autorenporträt
Sven Ostermeier, MD: Studied Mechanical engineering at
University of Braunschweig and Medicine at Hannover Medical
School. Consultant at the Orthopaedics Department of the
Hannover Medical school, Hannover, Germany. Special scientific
interest in knee biomechanics.