Purpose: To measure contact forces (CFs) at standardized locations representative of clinical articular cartilage defects on the medial and lateral femoral condyles during robotic tests with simulated weightbearing knee flexion.
Methods: Eleven human knees had 20-mm-diameter cylinders of native bone/cartilage cored from both femoral condyles at standardized locations, with each cylinder attached to a custom-built load cell that maintained the plug in its precise anatomic position. A robotic test system was used to flex the knee from 0° to 50° under 200-N tibiofemoral compression without and with a 2 Nm internal tibial torque, 5 Nm external tibial torque, and 45 N anterior tibial force (AF). CFs and knee kinematics were recorded before and after cutting the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
Results: ACL sectioning did not significantly increase medial or lateral CFs for any loading condition, with the exception of AF, in which increases in medial CF ranged from 38 N (at 15° flexion, P < .01) to 77 N (at 50° flexion, P < .002). Compared with the intact condition, ACL sectioning significantly increased anterior tibial translation by 12.33 mm (at 15° flexion, P < .001) and 17.4 mm (at 50° flexion, P < .001), and increased valgus rotation by 2.4° (at 15° flexion, P < .001) and 3.8° (at 50° flexion, P < .001).
Conclusions: Our hypothesis that CF would increase after ACL section was confirmed for the AF test condition only, and only for the medial condyle beyond 10° flexion. With the ACL sectioned, it appeared that the increased CF was owing to the medial condyle riding up over the posterior tibial plateau resulting from the large anterior tibial displacements.
Clinical Relevance: Aside from our limited finding with AF, we concluded that CFs were generally unaffected by ACL section.
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