Lower impulsive loadings following intensive weight loss after bariatric surgery in level and stair walking: a preliminary study.

Background: There are currently very few of studies which have evaluated the role of bariatric surgery in joint loadings and changes in gait. We wanted to examine how impulsive loading would change level and stair walking in severely or morbidly obese subjects after they had undergone bariatric surgery and weight loss.

Methods: Thirteen female and three male adults aged between 30 and 63 years, cleared for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, were recruited into this study.

Kinematic and kinetic changes in obese gait in bariatric surgery-induced weight loss.

This study examines the effects of a radical bariatric surgery-induced weight loss on the gait of obese subjects. We performed a three-dimensional motion analysis of lower limbs, and collected force platform data in the gait laboratory to calculate knee and hip joint moments. Subjects (n=13) performed walking trials in the laboratory before and 8.

Postural control and thigh muscle activity in men with knee osteoarthritis.

The aim of this study was to examine the standing balance and the function of vastus medialis (VM) and biceps femoris (BF) muscles with surface electromyography (EMG). Fifty-four subjects with uni- or bilateral knee osteoarthritis (OA) (aged 50-69 years) and 53 age-matched randomly selected clinically and radiologically healthy men participated in this study. Postural control was assessed on a force platform with a bipedal stance with eyes open (EO) and closed (EC) and a monopedal stance with EO.

Physical function and properties of quadriceps femoris muscle in men with knee osteoarthritis.

Objectives: To examine the objective physical function of the lower extremities, to measure the properties of quadriceps femoris muscle (QFM), and to assess subjective disabilities in men with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and to compare the results with those obtained from age- and sex-matched control subjects.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Rehabilitation clinic in a university hospital.