Reliability of tibiofemoral contact area and centroid location in upright, open MRI

How tibiofemoral alignment and contact locations affect predictions of medial and lateral tibiofemoral contact forces.

Understanding degeneration of biological and prosthetic knee joints requires knowledge of the in-vivo loading environment during activities of daily living. Musculoskeletal models can estimate medial/lateral tibiofemoral compartment contact forces, yet anthropometric differences between individuals make accurate predictions challenging. We developed a full-body OpenSim musculoskeletal model wit...

Upright MRI

modularity of reading comprehension in multiple-choice cloze procedure and reliability fluctuation

هدف این رساله تحقیق در مورد یافتن ارتباط بین واحدهای درک مطلب (از قبیل پروسه واژگانی، پروسه ساختاری و پروسه تفسیر معنایی) از طریق تست کلوز چهار چوابی در بین دانشجویان سال آخر رشته زبان انگلیسی میباشد. در مرحله اول از 150 دانشجو (80 مونث و 70 مذکر) از بین دانشجویان کارشناسی و کارشناسی ارشد دانشگاههای علامه طباطبائی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی و دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شمال تست نلسون (450 دی) گرفته شد. ...

Reliability of Semiautomated Computational Methods for Estimating Tibiofemoral Contact Stress in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study

Recent findings suggest that contact stress is a potent predictor of subsequent symptomatic osteoarthritis development in the knee. However, much larger numbers of knees (likely on the order of hundreds, if not thousands) need to be reliably analyzed to achieve the statistical power necessary to clarify this relationship. This study assessed the reliability of new semiautomated computational me...

The Effect of High Heel Shoes on Tibiofemoral and Patellofemoral joint Contact Forces and Muscle Forces

Introduction: High heel shoes affect the knee joint and can cause arthritis in the tibiofemoral (TFJ) and patellofemoral joints (PFJ). There is a dearth of research investigating the contact forces of TFJ and PFJ. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of high heel shoes on muscle forces as well as TFJ, and PFJ contact forces during walking.   Materials & Methods: A tot...