Where ankle fusion stands today.

Total ankle replacement

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. This issue of Acta Orthopaedica includes 3 articles on total ankle replacement (TAR), motivating this Guest Editorial (Nieuwe Weme et al. 2015, Kamrad et al. 2015, Hor...

Erratum to: ‘Novel patient engagement and recruitment strategies for an RCT of two NHS treatments for ankle osteoarthritis - total ankle replacement versus arthrodesis - the TARVA trial’

Unfortunately, the original version of this article [1] contained an error. The title was written as “Novel patient engagement and recruitment strategies for an RCY of two NHS treatments for ankle osteoarthritis total ankle replacement versus arthrodesis the TARVA trial” and should instead have been written as follows: “Novel patient engagement and recruitment strategies for an RCT of two NHS t...

Optimization of Ankle-Foot Prosthesis with Active Alignment by Passive Elements

Today, often ankle’s active prosthesis is used for transtibial amputated people’s walking, because these prostheses have some advantages such as increasing power and decreasing metabolism. In most of active prosthesis in order to create a movement or increase the force at the push-off, electrical actuators are used like a motor. In cases where a higher-power motor is necessary, the capacity, we...

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Three-dimensional finite element analysis of ankle arthrodesis

Background: Ankle arthrodesis is the gold standard and most commonly used method for the treatment of post-traumatic ankle arthritis. Aims: This study is to investigate the biomechanical safety and stability of four ankle fusion models through three-dimensional finite element analysis. Methods: Four ankle fusion models were established, including anterior plate ankle fusion model, lateral plate...