Research on the Influence of MUVON PLUS Treatment Upon the Biomechanical Behavior of the Human Osteoarthritic Knee.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the effects of MUVON PLUS, a dietary supplement containing hydrolized collagen, chondroitin sulfate, and vitamin C, on the biomechanical behavior of the knee joint in patients with second-degree osteoarthritis (OA).

Material And Method: The study included 15 participants who underwent biomechanical testing before and after 3 and 6 months of supplement administration. Biometrics and SimiMotion software were used to process and analyze the data.

Influences of treadmill speed and incline angle on the kinematics of the normal, osteoarthritic and prosthetic human knee.

The objective of this paper is to measure and to study the influence of the treadmill speed and incline angle on the kinematics of flexion-extension angles of the human knee joints during 23 tests of walking overground and on plane and inclined treadmill performed by a sample of 14 healthy subjects and during of seven tests performed by a sample of five patients suffering of knee osteoarthritis (KOA), before and three months after the total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. The medium cycles computed and plotted for all experimental tests performed by the healthy subjects' sample and for the osteoarthritic (OA) patients' sample before and after TKR surgery are compared and conclusions are formulated.

Effects of malalignment angle on the contact stress of knee prosthesis components, using finite element method.

In this paper, the complex 3D virtual model of the prosthetic knee is obtained using embedded applications: DesignModeler and SpaceClaim under ANSYS Workbench 14.5 software package. A number of six cases of prosthetic knee joint assembly, depending on the malalignment angle, are developed.