Development of a dynamic fall risk profile in elderly nursing home residents: A free field gait analysis based study.

Falls in nursing home residents are associated with a significant individual and socioeconomic burden of disease. To trigger and tailor individual intervention programs, solid early detection measures of residents at risk are needed. Aim of this study was thus to test the capability of a free field gait analysis insole to determine its usefulness in determining fall risk.

Long-term results of reconstructing the joints' articular surface in the knee and ankle with the surgical diamond instrumentation (SDI).

Purpose: The surgical diamond instrumentation (SDI), a precise wet-grinding technology, promised contact healing of press-fit inserted bone and even hyaline cartilage, lacks medium- and long-term results. This retrospective study was conducted to identify risk factors associated with the failure of the technique and the subjective patient outcome.

Methods: All patients treated for cartilage defects of the knee or ankle joint using the SDI technology between 2000 and 2012 with a follow-up > 1 year were included.