High tibial osteotomy is effective for managing a variety of knee conditions, including gonarthrosis with varus or valgus malalignment, osteochondritis dissecans, osteonecrosis, posterolateral instability, and chondral resurfacing. The fundamental goals of the procedure are to unload diseased articular surfaces and to correct angular deformity at the tibiofemoral articulation. Although the clin...

Stance control knee orthoses (SCOs) have become very popular recently. However, there is little information regarding opinions of actual orthosis users. The purpose of this study was to quantify the users' opinions of a SCO, and see whether factors found important for knee orthoses in past studies hold true for a stance control orthosis as well. A standardized survey was employed as part of a l...

BACKGROUND Obesity is an increasing national public health issue that has reached epidemic proportions over the past several decades. With new surgical advances in bariatric surgery, the massive-weight-loss patient population is on the rise. The generalized redundancy of skin following massive weight-loss, including lateral flank rolls, abdominal excesses, and buttock ptosis, is a problem amena...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the newly designed multi joint ankle-foot orthosis on the gait and dynamic balance of stroke patients having foot drop. [Subjects and Methods] This study was conducted with 15 subjects who were diagnosed with stroke. 10-meter walk test, functional reaching test and timed up and go test were measured after each subjects wore a p...

The paper describes the technique and application of a tricortical bone graft harvesting from lateral malleolus. Graft does not interfere with continuity fibula. Due to its structure, is equivalent similarly structured taken iliac crest. used in osteotomies arthrodesis within foot ankle joint, which require strong piece as wedge. author typically uses this type for osteotomy anterior part calca...

Many investigations on orthotic devices for araplegics have been undertaken during the last 5 years. Ferris et al. 1 investigated an ankleoot orthosis powered by artificial pneumatic uscles. Harwin 2 discussed the theoretical coniderations for the design of simple teleoperators nd powered orthosis. Despite substantial adances, a suitable orthosis that gives paraplegics a inimum ability to walk ...

An active orthosis was designed to support users with reduced muscle strength with an additional knee joint torque to improve the independency in everyday activities. In two persons the hypothesis was tested that less muscle activity is necessary when standing up with the active support of a motorized orthosis. The orthosis is a custom-made knee-ankle-foot orthosis and is equipped with a series...