Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate correlative and predictive relationship of lower extremity anatomical alignment, isometric hip abduction and external rotation strength with jump-landing biomechanics using Landing Error Scoring System (LESS). Methods: Anatomical alignment and isometric lower extremity muscle strength of 30 active...

Allograft INTRODUCTION: Meniscectomy is one of the most common procedures performed in orthopaedic surgery. The meniscus plays a critical role in knee joint biomechanics. With loss of meniscus function there is an increased risk of arthritic changes in the knee. The gold standard treatment for symptomatic meniscus deficiency is allograft transplantation. Current meniscus transplants are associa...

Lumbar degenerative disease (LDD) refers to the normal strain of body involving lumbar bone, ligament, intervertebral disc, thereby protruding slippage, spinal stenosis and other lesions. fusion surgery has been proved be an effective strategy for treatment LDD. At present, a variety methods such as anterior posterior have reported. This article aims review discuss reported strategies LDD relat...

The patellofemoral joint is a common site of pain and failure following total knee arthroplasty. A contributory factor may be adverse patellofemoral biomechanics. Cadaveric investigations are commonly used to assess the biomechanics of the joint, but are associated with high inter-specimen variability and often cannot be carried out at physiological levels of loading. This study aimed to evalua...

Background: Cellular biomechanics can be manipulated by strong electric fields, manifested by the field-induced membrane deformation and migration (galvanotaxis), which significantly impacts normal cellular physiology. Artificial giant vesicles that mimic the phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane have been used to investigate the membrane biomechanics subjected to electric fields. Under a s...

BACKGROUND As injury rates rise in the later stages of sporting activities, a better understanding of lower extremity biomechanics in the later phases of gamelike situations may improve training and injury prevention programs. HYPOTHESIS Lower extremity biomechanics of a drop-jump task (extracted from a principal components analysis) would reveal factors associated with risk of anterior cruci...

Articular cartilage covers the ends of synovial joints and its function is to distribute loads between opposing bones and provide almost nonfrictional sliding properties for joints. It is comprised of cells (chondrocytes) embedded in an extracellular matrix (ECM) containing mainly collagen, proteoglycans (PGs) and interstitial fluid. Chondrocytes are responsible for the production of ECM macrom...