Publications by authors named "Asimakis K Kanellopoulos"
Article Synopsis
- The Q-angle is the vector force created by the quadriceps and patellar tendons on the patella, where an increased Q-angle has been linked to various injuries and disorders.
- This literature review critiques the reliance on static Q-angle measurements in clinical practice and advocates for assessing dynamic movement instead for better clinical decision-making.
- Dynamic Q-angle includes multiple movements (frontal and transverse planes) that are more reflective of real-life activities, while static Q-angle measurements are limited and lack biomechanical relevance.
Introduction Pain drawings (PDs) are an important component of the assessment of a patient with pain. Although analog pain drawings (APDs), such as pen-on-paper drawings, have been extensively used in clinical assessment and clinical research, there is a lack of digital pain drawing (DPD) software that would be able to quantify and analyze the digital pain distribution obtained by the patients. The aim of this work is to describe a method that can quantify the extent and location of pain through novel custom-built software able to analyze data from the digital pain drawings obtained from the patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gait analysis represents one of the newest methodologies used in the clinical evaluation of patients with cervical myelopathy (CM).
Objective: To describe the role of gait analysis in the clinical evaluation of patients with CM, as well as its potential role in the evaluation of the functional outcome of any surgical intervention.
Methods: A literature review was performed in the PubMed, OVID, and Google Scholar medical databases, from January 1995 to August 2016, using the terms "analysis," "anterior," "cervical myelopathy," "gait," "posterior," and "surgery.