INTRODUCTION: Recent experience with bicondylar tibial plateau fractures has led to concern over the stability of the posteromedial fragment when using standard lateral plating with anterior lag screws. Loss of reduction of this fragment has led to posterior subluxation of the femur in stance, and a stiff arthritic knee [1]. Historically fixation of these fragments has been performed with later...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term skeletal effects of mandibular symphyseal distraction osteogenesis (MSDO) with a tooth- and bone-borne distraction device, analysed using the metallic implant method. The study sample comprised 20 patients between 15.8 and 25 years of age, with a mean age of 20.01 +/- 2.25 years at the start of treatment. In 12 subjects, titanium implan...

BACKGROUND The knee joint is a bicondylar hinge two-level joint with six degrees of freedom. The location of the functional axis of flexion-extension motion is still a subject of research and discussions. During the swing phase, the femoral condyles do not have direct contact with the tibial articular surfaces and the intra-articular space narrows with increasing weight bearing. The geometry of...

AIMS In Asia and the Middle-East, people often flex their knees deeply in order to perform activities of daily living. The purpose of this study was to investigate the 3D kinematics of normal knees during high-flexion activities. Our hypothesis was that the femorotibial rotation, varus-valgus angle, translations, and kinematic pathway of normal knees during high-flexion activities, varied accor...

Tibiofibular torsion was measured by computed tomography in three series of patients affected by congenital clubfoot who were treated with different protocols. The normal leg of unilateral deformities served as the control. For the bilateral cases, only the right side was included in the study. The angle between the bicondylar axis of the tibia and the bimalleolar axis was the index of tibiofib...

Nearly all biological or physiological functions are in some way related to one or other aspects of morphology. The morphometric variables of human body can be measured by the fundamental techniques of anthropometry. To be more specific, biological anthropology is substantially enriched due to the contribution relating to application of anthropometry made by a number of scientific workers in th...

Introduction: Total knee arthroplasty is a successful procedure with excellent clinical outcomes although a 15 % dissatisfaction rate remains. Design differences between knee prostheses continue to be developed in an effort to improve these outcomes. We aimed to design a study to evaluate the effect of these design features on the functional and clinical outcomes following total knee arthroplas...