ArticleKnee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA2014
Difference in knee rotation between total and unicompartmental knee arthroplasties during stair climbing.
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- Gait comparison of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty and total knee arthroplasty during level walking.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Effect of posterior-stabilized and cruciate-retaining implants on three-dimensional kinematic characteristics after total knee arthroplasty.Joint diseases and related surgery · 2025Article
- Wearable-Based Stair Climb Power Estimation and Activity Classification.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The primary stability of the femoral component in cemented single and twin peg Oxford unicompartmental knee arthroplasty under adverse conditions.Bone & joint research · 2022Article
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- A comparison of gait characteristics between posterior stabilized total knee and fixed bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasties.Asia-Pacific journal of sports medicine, arthroscopy, rehabilitation and technology · 2020Article
- Good results with minimally invasive unicompartmental knee resurfacing after 10-year follow-up.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2018Article
- Compromised knee internal rotation in total knee arthroplasty patients during stair climbing.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Lower limb kinematics of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty individuals during stair ascent.Journal of orthopaedicsArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this study was to compare knee kinematics during stair walking in patients with simultaneous total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and unicompartmental knee arthroplasties (UKA). It was hypothesized that UKA would reproduce more normalized knee kinematics than TKA during stair ascent and descent.
methodsSix patients who received UKA in one knee and TKA in the other knee were included in the study. For this study, a four-step staircase was assembled with two force platforms being positioned at the centre of the second and third steps. Each patient was attached with 16 reflective markers at both lower extremities and was asked to perform five roundtrip trials of stair climbing. Kinematic parameters including stance duration, knee angle, vertical ground reaction force (GRF), joint reaction force, and moments were obtained and analysed using a10-camera motion system (VICON, Oxford, UK). Nonparametric Friedman test was used to compare the results between two arthroplasty methods and between stair ascent and descent.
resultsCompared to TKA, UKA knees exhibited significantly greater degree of rotation in transverse planes (5.0 degrees during ascent and 6.0 degrees during descent on average), but showed no difference in terms of the other parameters. When comparing the results during stair ascent with descent, overall greater knee angle, vertical GRF, joint reaction force, and moment were observed during stair descent.
conclusionsBoth UKA and TKA knees have shown overall similar knee kinematics, though UKA knee may allow greater degree of rotation freedom, which resembles normal knee kinematics during stair walking.
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