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Ferdinand Lauren F. Carpena and Lemmuel L. Tayo
Knee osteoarthritis is a musculoskeletal defect specific to the soft tissues in the knee joint and is a degenerative disease that affects millions of people. Although drug intake can slow down progression, total knee arthroplasty has been the gold standa...
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Manuel García-Sánchez, Paloma García-Robles, María Catalina Osuna-Pérez, Rafael Lomas-Vega, Esteban Obrero-Gaitán and Irene Cortés-Pérez
Immersive and non-immersive virtual reality-based rehabilitation (VRBR) is effective in improving knee pain and function, dynamic balance, and knee flexion range of motion and extension strength after total knee arthroplasty, in comparison to conventiona...
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Letizia Castelli, Chiara Iacovelli, Siria Ciccone, Valerio Geracitano, Claudia Loreti, Augusto Fusco, Lorenzo Biscotti, Luca Padua and Silvia Giovannini
Osteoarthritis is a common chronic condition in the elderly population and, with falls, represents a major public health problem. Patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis often have poor balance, which is considered an important risk factor for falls. In...
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Stefano Marco Paolo Rossi, Fabio Mancino, Rudy Sangaletti, Loris Perticarini, Ludovico Lucenti and Francesco Benazzo
The development of augmented reality (AR) and its application in total joint arthroplasty aims at improving the accuracy and precision in implant components? positioning, hopefully leading to increased outcomes and survivorship. However, this field is fa...
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Angela Brivio, David Barrett, Matthew F. Gong, Annabel Watson, Susie Naybour and Johannes F. Plate
Functional dissatisfaction following total knee replacement (TKR) is recorded as high as 20%. The majority of these patients report anterior knee pain (AKP) as the main source of dissatisfaction. Elevated patellofemoral compression forces and soft tissue...
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Hye Kyeong Lee, Sung Min Kim and Hong Seok Lim
Loss of lumbar lordosis in flatback patients leads to changes in the walking mechanism like knee flexion. Such variations in flatback patients are predicted to alter the characteristics of total knee replacement (TKR) contact, so their TKR will show diff...
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Ilie Onu, Daniela Matei, Dragos-Petrica Sardaru, Dan Cascaval, Ana Onu, Robert Gherghel, Ionela Lacramioara Serban, George Danut Mocanu, Daniel Andrei Iordan, Gabriel Murariu and Anca-Irina Galaction
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the most common public health problems which cannot be cured and ultimately leads to disability. Current management is largely limited to the treatment of the symptoms. To avoid the late stages of KOA that lead to knee...
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Vicente Cortes, Carlos A. Rodriguez Betancourth, Javier A. Ortega and Hasina Huq
One of the main causes of hip prostheses failure is the premature wear of their components. Multi-directional motion or ?cross-shear? motion has been identified as one of the most significant factors affecting the wear rate of UHMWPE in total hip joint r...
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