Journal article

Publication year: 1984

Pages: 342-347

Journal: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volume number: 103

Issue number: 5

ISSN: 0936-8051

eISSN: 1434-3916

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00432423

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 
Certain optical methods (photogrammetry) achieve great precision in analysis of body motion. The tracing of body surface movement is unsuitable for analysis of actual joint motion, at least in the knee joint, because of the soft tissue shifting which occurs. Comparatively simple mathematical-kinematic techniques can be used to check the degree of error of methods of measurement in orthopedics. No currently available knee joint prostheses function in a kinematically perfect manner. If the movement of knee joint prostheses is to be optimized, and if implantation errors affecting kinematics are to be avoided, it seems indispensable, at the current level of technology, to employ X-ray stereophotogrammetry to describe natural knee joint motion.

Harvard Citation style: HOSCHEK, J., WEBER, U., LADSTATTER, P. and SCHELSKE, H. (1984) MATHEMATICAL KINEMATICS IN ENGINEERING OF ENDOPROSTHESES EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS OF GAIT ANALYSIS, Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, 103(5), pp. 342-347. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00432423

APA Citation style: HOSCHEK, J., WEBER, U., LADSTATTER, P., & SCHELSKE, H. (1984). MATHEMATICAL KINEMATICS IN ENGINEERING OF ENDOPROSTHESES EVALUATION OF THE RESULTS OF GAIT ANALYSIS. Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery. 103(5), 342-347. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00432423