Publications by authors named "G M Whatling"

Background: Both medial knee osteoarthritis and associated varus alignment have been proposed to alter knee joint loading and consequently overloading the medial compartment. Individuals with knee osteoarthritis and varus deformity are candidates for coronal plane corrective surgery, high tibial osteotomy. This study evaluated knee loading and contact location for a control group, a pre-surgery cohort and the same cohort 12 months post-surgery using a musculoskeletal modelling approach.

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Background: Patient recovery can be quantified objectively, via gait analysis, or subjectively, using patient reported outcome measures. Association between these measures would explain the level of disability reported in patient reported outcome measures and could assist with therapeutic decisions.

Methods: Total knee replacement outcome was assessed using objective classification and patient-reported outcome measures (Knee Outcome Survey and Oxford Knee Scores).

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The primary role of muscles is to move, and control joints. It is therefore important to understand how degenerative joint disease changes this role with the resulting effect on mechanical joint loading. Muscular control strategies can vary depending on strength and coordination which in turn influences joint control and loading.

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The purpose of this study was to quantify the effect of total knee replacement (TKR) alignment on in-vivo knee function and loading in a unique patient cohort who have been identified as having a high rate of component mal-alignment. Post-TKR (82.4 ± 6.

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Background: Low back pain (LBP) classification systems are used to deliver targeted treatments matched to an individual profile, however, distinguishing between different subsets of LBP remains a clinical challenge.

Methods: A novel application of the Cardiff Dempster-Shafer Theory Classifier was employed to identify clinical subgroups of LBP on the basis of repositioning accuracy for subjects performing a sitting and standing posture task. 87 LBP subjects, clinically subclassified into flexion (n = 50), passive extension (n = 14), and active extension (n = 23) motor control impairment subgroups and 31 subjects with no LBP were recruited.

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