Evaluation of a New Patellar Tendon Bearing Brace With Offloading Monitoring and Adjustability: A Pilot Study.

Background And Aims: The patellar tendon-bearing (PTB) brace is a crucial device designed to lessen axial forces on the tibia. The newly designed PTB brace allows clinicians to measure offloading amount in the realtime. This study aimed to explore the relationship between a rise in displacement between the foot plate and calf shells of this new PTB brace and changes in the amount of offloading on the tibia.

Design and Evaluation of a Patellar Tendon-Bearing Brace with Off-Loading Mechanism on Tibia.

The current study aimed to design a patellar-tendon-bearing (PTB) brace capable of measuring and quantifying weight offloading on the tibia. The PTB brace was designed with off-loading mechanism on the tibia with features, including ankle joint, vertical sliding adaptor, vertical sliding piece, and upper connector of load cells to PTB brace. Also, the present study investigated the effect of brace on 20 healthy individuals under 8 different off-loading conditions, based on measuring the vertical distance between the calf shells and foot plate through a sliding adapter at 0.

Total Knee Arthroplasty in Severe Unstable Knee: Case-Report and Literature Review.

Multiplanar or global laxity in arthritic knee is rare, most of this patients have neuromuscular disorder (post poliomyelitis, spinal dystrophy) or history of knee trauma. Ligament insufficiency and severe bone loss is significant in this patient. The estimated prevalence for the concurrence of charcot marie-tooth (CMT) with myasthenia gravis (MG) suggests an extremely rare event.

A study of the long-term effects of anatomical open reduction of patella on patellofemoral articular cartilage in follow up arthroscopy.

Anatomical open reduction is the choice treatment method in patellar fractures and the sole approach to study the cartilage surface healing is arthroscopy. This study is to evaluate the cartilage healing, long after the complete union of the fractures and the long-term effects of simple transverse patellar fractures with perfect results on patellofemoral cartilage surface. Free of charge standard diagnostic arthroscopy was done on 22 patients whose simple transverse pattelar fractures had happened at least 3 years ago with the mean age of 36.